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Like “torture drift” where those torturing a prisoner drift further and further into greater and greater levels of brutality, we could coin a term with respect to surveillance and name it “surveillance drift"; the taking of more and more information. Not only is this “surveillance drift” the norm among government spooks, but it also...
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As a journalist, I am not against new technology. I'm glad to have a computer and the Internet instead of a manual typewriter and a public library with limited and shrinking hours. But we are losing context as we replace people with technology to make newsgathering cheaper. The use of technology to substitute for...
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The Newseum, which honored 82 journalists on May 13, 2013, stated that it had “decided to re-evaluate their inclusion as journalists on our memorial wall pending further investigation,” even though just last week, in response to the hysterical reaction to Salama’s and al-Kumi’s initial inclusion, the museum had affirmed and defended their decision
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It is up to the people to stand up for principle and morality when their institutions and public officials refuse to do so. The fates of those who are maimed or killed by our government's policies are inextricably intertwined with our own; we must listen and respond to their cry for justice.
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And so here we are, living in an environment Huxley or Orwell could forecast, but could never foretaste. It is the one-party state creating a smoke screen, diverting attention from the real issues of domestic policy. Divide and conquer, always keep’em guessing, always leave’em laughing. It requires the suspension of belief and the acceptance...
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It is as if someone has died, that realization which comes to you from out of the blue and says, “Oh wow, they really did that!” Armed men in military style fatigues took over an American city and ordered its residents off the streets. Roaming, this force in their armored personnel carriers, interrogated citizens...
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I‘m sitting down one night reviewing the credentials of a physician I know to be a duplicitous character who was just arrested for allegedly selling prescription pain medications, opiates, to any drug seeker who could pay him. He was well known to doctors and hospital administrators to be a meretricious fellow and yet, if...
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Let us suppose that some giant pharmaceutical company out there has invested many years of research into developing a pill that would make you feel better. With a single dose you would begin to feel yourself growing calmer. Like magic, all the unimportant little worries and insecurities in your life would simply fade away....
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I know, bla bla bla Internet, bla bla bla democracy. I've heard it all too. It's easy to doubt the glowing talk about connectivity when the reality has gotten pretty tiresome. Progress in life, already full of artificial stressors, has had to reroute itself through yet another technological miracle, and there's no turning back...
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When you make a film about the most politically charged event of our times (9/11) and manhunt in history (the pursuit and assassination of bin Laden), how can you truthfully claim that you are not making a political statement? And why would you falsely present how the key piece of evidence was obtained?
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