From tews@vcommons.com Sun Jun 22 00:10:44 1997 Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu (mx4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.5]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id AAA64680 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:10:41 -0700 Received: from MAIL.vcommons.com (vcommons.com [206.215.166.3]) by mx4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.04) with ESMTP id AAA09187 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:10:37 -0700 Received: from pc ([206.215.166.35]) by MAIL.vcommons.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-12288) with SMTP id AAA277 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:20:17 -0700 From: tews@vcommons.com (Eddie Tews) Message-Id: <970622001337.ZM3334@pc> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:13:35 -0700 X-Mailer: Z-Mail 4.0.1 (4.0.1 Apr 9 1996) To: mediawatch@u.washington.edu Subject: trying to talk to a gramophone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii i was flipping through the channels this morning and came across a show on channel 9 called tony brown's journal. do y'all know about this show? i didn't watch much, but liked what i saw. a gentlemen was talking about gulf war syndrome, and giving a lot of hard data, including historical examples of past government experimentation on the populous. he was saying things like, "the lies are coming from the top down, and the truth is coming from the bottom up," etc. what i really liked was that the host, tony brown presumably, let him talk more than a sentence at a time, and he was able to develop a sound argument. there was also a widow of a gulf war vet who died three years ago, and she said something to the effect that she's now learned never to trust the government. i know it's fashionable to dis the "pointy-headed beauraucrats (sp.?)," but taking on the pentagon goes a step further, it seems to me. i don't know how many people are watching channel 9 at noon on a saturday, but it's better than nothing. on tuesday night, i got into my car and turned on the radio, and heard drake collier saying something like, "granted that the stadium opposition didn't have any money. but this vote proves that they didn't have a MESSAGE, so it wouldn't have mattered if they had all the money in the world. this is a real triumph for democracy. the people have spoken" etc. etc. and i'm thinking, "uh oh, it must be a 70-30 split the way he's talking." and it was actually a 50.5-49.5 split! amazing. speaking of The Baffler, #9 just arrived. it's about the fate of labor in the US. it looks good, of course. .