Why the Revolution won't be televised

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 11/06/2003 06:15 PM
Amn est Int'l drops documentary after petition. Two Irish filmmakers were inside the palace during the coup in Venezuela in 2002 (also on MeFi: 1 2). I caught their powerful documentary, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised here in Chicago (review). The film was just recently dropped from Canada Amnesty International's upcoming film festival in Vancouver after opp osition parties in Venezuela organized a petition of over 7,000 signatures (mp3). The groups have concerns about it's accuracy, especially in it's characterization of the opposition to the democratically elected President Chavez. A petition supporting the film has been started as well. I found the movie stunning and a chilling account of how media outlets can shape, gauge and control public perception at home and abroad (ergo the Reagan miniseries debacle). Also notable I found was Chavez's passion to teach the poor to understand the constitution of their country - impoverished Venezuelans talking passionately about how they realize that understanding politics and policy is one of the first steps out of their poverty. I picture Jerry Springer trash trying to articulate any understanding of the U. S. constitution. Any Venezuela MeFi'ers wanna give a background on how the country had been faring since the coup and restoration? Was it a CIA action? I'm sure the honeymoon's over - how's it going?

AlterNet: The Revolution Will Be
Televised

AlterNet: The Revolution Will Be
Televised 11/04/2003 04:13 AM
moveon.org is sponsoring a bush in 30 seconds contest .. The Revolution Will Be Televised

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Joe Trippi: The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised

Joe Trippi: The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised 07/15/2004 03:46 AM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised .. Joe Trippi's book

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Joe Trippi's "Revolution Will Not Be
Televised"

Joe Trippi's "Revolution Will Not Be
Televised" 08/03/2004 06:59 AM
I got a review copy of Joe Trippi's new book, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in the mail yesterday and I ended up staying up until 2AM reading it, and I'm paying for it with yawns and scratchy eyes today. But I'm glad I did it.

For starters, Trippi can write -- he's put together a campaign narrative that's a cross between the Fellowship of the Ring and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail. This was an exciting adventure, half tech startup and half presidential bid, and after all, Trippi's professional career has been devoted to producing snappy written and verbal materials for candidates, and it shows. He's really, really good.

What's more, Trippi is a genuine, fire-breathing, rip-roaring Internet evangelist who makes me want to jump up and shout hallelujah. I mean, halfway through this book, I was starting to daydream about moving back to the US to help use the Internet to sway elections and change the world -- and that's ALREADY what I do for a living.

Finally, this is a flat-out inspirational story, a story about how the future arrived in politics, about how the transformation in politics has been downplayed by the entrenched interests who stand to lose from it, about how we've only just seen the beginning of a new form of civic engagement in the US and all over the world.

I grew up on narratives of civil rights organizers, Yippies, revolutionaries and great scientists, and I've always had a firm belief that we can change the world by applying our shoulders to it and pushing. Trippi's book affirms that belief for me, and gives me renewed hope for the future.

The Dean for America campaign arrived at just the right moment--a pivotal point in our political history, when forty years of a corrupt system had reduced politics to its basest elements--the race to raise money from one-quarter of one percent of the wealthiest Americans and corporate donors in exchange for dictating the policy of the country. Then, the side with the most money simply bought the most television ads to manipulate the most people--while instant polling, focus groups, and message testing ref ined the struggle to a few swing voters in a few key districts in a few key states, blurring any significant differences between the monolithic parties and destroying honest debate about issues like health care and the war in Iraq. Until every candidate sounded exactly the same, and a member of either party could proudly stand up and proclaim that his party had passed a Patients' Bill of Rights--an utterly meaningless bill that, incidentally, *didn't provide health care for one single American.*

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The Counter-Revolution Has Been
Televised

The Counter-Revolution Has Been
Televised 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
As the Dean campaign started to raise serious money and support on the Internet last fall, it became common for the likes of me to go around trumpeting that this election might be for the Internet what the 1960 election was for television. In the wake of Iowa and New Hampshire, it seems evident that, once again, I'm too early with a prediction that may eventually prove accurate. If anything, this election may reconfirm the preeminent role of the idiot box in American politics, just as the Bush administration is demonstrating the power of plutocracy to an extent not witnessed since Karl Rove's political hero William McKinley was elected. I have seen the past, and it still works. Politics as usual was working like God's wristwatch in Iowa, where the RNC and various Republican PAC's outspent many of the Democratic candidates on negative TV ads aimed exclusively at Dean. But more damaging, in my opinion, was the remarkably open bias that the traditional media seemed to display against Howard Dean in their presentation of the news itself. I don't watch much television, but what little I've seen in the last month indicated to me that Dean was being systematically slimed. I witnessed, for example, an astonishing are-you-still-beating-your-wife interview of Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi by CNN's Paula Zahn. Zahn persisted in drilling in on Dean's having said in an NPR interview that the notion the Bush administration had known in advance about 911 in advance was "an interesting theory," refusing, despite Trippi's protests, to read a bit further in the transcript to Dean's unequivocal statement that it was a theory he didn't share. Dean was taken to severe task for having murmured something on Canadian television four years ago about flaws in the Iowa caucus system. Fox spent an entire day calling him a liar without ever being specific, in my hearing anyway, about what lies he had purportedly told. CNN repeatedly reported that some Iowa voters were referring to Dean volunteers as "Perfect Storm troopers." Indeed, in my extremely random sampling of TV reporting before the Iowa caucuses, I never heard a single reference to Dean that wasn't at least mildly derisive. Then we had the yawp heard round the world. Dean gave a valedictory to his supporters in Iowa that was no more feverish, in my opinion, than many rally exhortations I've heard over the years, even from such sober fellows as Dick Cheney. Countless football coaches deliver such yells every fall week and yet are lionized by their fans. But, according to the big media, Dean's "yee-haaa" was the sound of political hara-kari. You would have thought they'd caught Dean in bed with either a live man or a dead woman. They belabored him for his shout as though he'd done something truly heinous, like, say, leading America into a major war under false pretenses, or robbing the poor to feed the rich, or dramatically curtailing civil liberties. All the networks ran the tape like scenes from a terrorist attack, to the accompaniment of much tsk-tsking and head-shaking. Every pundit of any consequence proclaimed it Dean's last howl. But, as I say, I couldn't see what was so bad about it. Prior to this, Dean had seemed a little too tightly-wrapped for my tastes. I was heartened to see him display any emotion beyond justified indignation. But if you have a signal that can be heard everywhere and you transmit often enough the news that someone is crazy, just about everyone will start believing it, whatever the evidence. This is especially true in a primary campaign where the leading criterion driving candidate preference is the ability to beat the incumbent. Given the relentless hammering he took from the media, Dean was lucky to get 26% of the New Hampshire vote. Even so, Dean may be done for. Or, more to the point, done in. Some will say that he strung his own rope, but it looked more like a media lynching to me. Assuming I'm right about this, why did television want to hang Howard Dean?...

The Revolution Will Be Sketched Out on
Paper (Then Televised)

The Revolution Will Be Sketched Out on
Paper (Then Televised) 07/23/2004 01:26 PM
Drazen Pantic used off-the-shelf, inexpensive hardware and software combined with a community Wi-Fi network to broadcast to live television: Citizen videobloggers take note. Pantic describes the system he used (drawn as a simple schematic not much more complicated than the actual installation) to perform a live, public-access television broadcast managed by him and two colleagues. The topic? How they were doing what they were doing, of course. Pantic's essay walks through the drop in price, increase in quality, and proliferation of open-source tools and patent-free/license-free standards that can allow practically anyone to produce streaming, broadcast quality television or recorded digital video for later editing and airing. We established a wireless connection through a local, public WiFi network maintained by the non-profit NYC Wireless, and broadcast from that spot to a computer at MNN studios. The video and audio was captured by the camcorder and fed into the laptop, where it was encoded as MPEG4/AAC streams, then sent out as a unicast stream via the WiFi connection. At MNN they played the stream through a scan converter -- which converts the stream on a computer into a video signal -- then broadcast it live on the air. It's not just a sign of things to come. It's a sign that things have changed....

Televised tirade in Iowa dogs Dean after
caucuses (USATODAY.com)

Televised tirade in Iowa dogs Dean after
caucuses (USATODAY.com) 01/22/2004 02:53 AM
USATODAY.com - Howard Dean wanted to talk about issues. Instead, the man who was supposed to be marching toward the Democratic presidential nomination by now spent part of Tuesday trying to explain his televised tirade after losing in Monday's Iowa caucuses.

Revolution 7.1 1.2.8

Revolution 7.1 1.2.8 12/02/2003 01:48 AM
Revolution 7.1 is the ultimate audio upgrade for your PCI-based computer.

Revolution OS on CBC TV

Revolution OS on CBC TV 01/03/2005 12:18 PM
If you live in the US and don’t have it on cable or your dish, perhaps a bar with a satellite dish can pull it down for you. If you live in Detroit or Buffalo, you should be able to get it on rabbit ears. The time is local to your time zone or the time zone of the station you’re pulling the signal from. Jan 6, 2005 11:25pm Revolution OS Welcome to night four…

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Revolution 5.1 1.0

Revolution 5.1 1.0 08/04/2004 04:44 PM
The ultimate audio card for for gamers.

Revolution 2.5

Revolution 2.5 08/31/2004 09:08 PM
The user-centric development tool for every major platform, easy to use and packed with features.

The IAA Revolution

The IAA Revolution 07/06/2004 09:53 AM
Pssst. Wanna build a perfect portfolio? Start with the secret of IAA.

Web of revolution

Web of revolution 01/23/2003 03:48 AM
The government tries periodically to block people's access to search engines such as Google, which is especially popular because it can run searches in Chinese ...

PS3, Revolution, Xbox 2?

PS3, Revolution, Xbox 2? 07/13/2004 10:37 PM
Blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com - Tue Jul 13, 08:43 pm GMT

Runtime Revolution 2.2

Runtime Revolution 2.2 06/10/2004 02:54 PM
A user-centric, multi-platform development environment.

Viva La Revolution

Viva La Revolution 06/07/2004 12:06 PM
There is a revolution going on in Brazil. "Opting for free software doesn't just take into account costs. It's about knowledge development," said Sergio Amadeu, the president of the government's Information Technology Institute (ITI), who is in charge of replacing...

Welcome to the Design Revolution

Welcome to the Design Revolution 06/07/2004 06:08 AM
This month's letter from the editor.

Must There Be a Digital Revolution?

Must There Be a Digital Revolution? 01/27/2004 04:07 PM
Business Week Jan 27 2004 8:33PM GMT

Chevy Wants a Revolution

Chevy Wants a Revolution 08/10/2004 12:24 PM
Will consumers embrace the automaker's new identity?

You Say You Wanna Revolution

You Say You Wanna Revolution 08/22/2004 07:48 AM
Do you hate the government? Do you want to smash the corporate slave state? Are you an anarchist, punk, eco-freak with a bad haircut and attitude? Is your idea of a fun hobby sitting in your basement practicing your bomb-making skills? Do you listen to Rage Against the Machine all the time and have your walls lined with posters of Che Guevara? Do you actually want to do something to bring about the Revolution instead of getting stoned and rambling about the Zapatistas? Well here's something easy and powerful you can do to help bring the walls down: Vote for Bush.

SDBA Revolution 2.0

SDBA Revolution 2.0 02/11/2004 12:21 PM
An instant messaging application server architecture and framework.

The Aquaculture Revolution

The Aquaculture Revolution 04/28/2004 05:58 AM
The oceans of the world are being overfished. The solution: roaming robots that bring fish farming to the open seas. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine.

The Next Social Revolution?

The Next Social Revolution? 08/17/2004 10:40 PM

Runtime Revolution 2.2.1 Now Available

Runtime Revolution 2.2.1 Now Available 06/24/2004 07:34 PM
Runtime Revolution 2.2.1 Now Available
Free Update of User-Centric Development Environment

Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25th 2004

Runtime Revolution today announces the latest update of Revolution, the user-centric development tool for software authors of all abilities. Revolution is available for every major platform and it's ease of use and powerful feature set make it the quickest and easiest way to develop Internet, multimedia, database and generic software applications. Revolution 2.2.1 is maintenance update and is available free to Express, Studio and Enterprise customers of version 2.2.

E-government Revolution

E-government Revolution 07/27/2004 11:14 PM
Gulf Daily News Jul 28 2004 2:32AM GMT

The Net Phone Revolution

The Net Phone Revolution 07/27/2004 06:13 PM
Fortune Jul 27 2004 9:50PM GMT

The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged

The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged 04/27/2004 05:26 PM
"The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged." .. Bengals sweatshirt .. mention .. writes

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The Spyware Revolution

The Spyware Revolution 04/27/2004 10:59 PM

Google's dot.com revolution

Google's dot.com revolution 04/30/2004 07:09 PM
News 24 Apr 30 2004 11:11PM GMT

Sempre revolution

Sempre revolution 05/01/2004 07:41 AM
Conspiracy theorists start your engines! http://www.google.com/blog/. Yep, it's that time again, when I get to make my once weekly tech post. Much of this stuff comes from the marvellous Hotlinks, itself from those crazy Euro-chaps at Upian. They also point...

The Telephone's Second Revolution

The Telephone's Second Revolution 04/16/2004 06:20 AM
Forbes Apr 16 2004 10:16AM GMT

SDBA Revolution 2.4

SDBA Revolution 2.4 07/02/2004 12:56 PM
An instant messaging application server architecture and framework.

The Coming RSS Revolution

The Coming RSS Revolution 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
Arik Hesseldahl (Forbes.com): "... 2004, it seems, is the year the RSS feed--the letters stand for real simple syndication or rich site summary--is going mainstream."

SDBA Revolution 2.15

SDBA Revolution 2.15 02/17/2004 11:50 AM
An instant messaging application server architecture and framework.

Robot Revolution!

Robot Revolution! 07/27/2004 01:18 PM
Here's a gallery of Joe Alterio's agitprop for the Robo-Equality Party. Digital prints on archival paper are $40 to $100 depending on the size. Link (Thanks, Lin dsay!)

The revolution will be energized

The revolution will be energized 02/13/2004 06:58 AM
In "Power to the People," journalist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran makes a case for markets, not governments, leading us to a green, energy-abundant future.

New: Revolution Dreamcard

New: Revolution Dreamcard 09/01/2004 09:58 AM
Runtime Revolution released Dreamcard, a new card-based authoring environment for beginning to intermediate developers, students, hobbyists, and others.

Update: Revolution 2.5

Update: Revolution 2.5 09/01/2004 09:58 AM
The multi-platform development tool adds new data security features, support for XML-RPC, an improved user interface, and much more.

Web Tunes Revolution Here Soon

Web Tunes Revolution Here Soon 04/10/2005 05:54 AM

Australians are expected to get their chance to try iTunes Music Store in the next two months. By Daniel Dasey, Asutralia Sun-Herald

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