[syndicate] business morals and afghani actors

[Claudia Westermann]

one:
hello Mr. editor.
oh you have these photographs of this 'crossfire essay' hanging on the wall.

editor:
yes, a very talented photographer. brilliant, the colours....

one:
good for the magazine, that you printed the story... more and more people 
protesting out there...

editor:
yes, we have to keep an appearance of neutrality, have to keep in mind the 
subscriber numbers.
and these images are just perfect. They do not scare people too much ... 
they have this fictious flair.

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out of andrei ujica's menu for an understanding:

Abbas Kiarostami:
Bad ma ra khahad bord (The Wind Will Carry Us)

http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/movie-1098956/reviews.php
http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/kiarostami.html

the film is related to the subject of sensation journalism.


.... and in case you wonder at one point ... one Persian speaking person 
assured: the milk pot is empty.
some confusion at least in the French subtitles.

-c


> >maybe because they are so perfect in a way. showing on the other hand 
> very brutal scenes or 'facts' but because the way they are >taken I 
> somehow get the impression that the people photographed turn into actors 
> for a scene or a piece of art in a way ...
> >( a moral question ? business ? )
>
>Yea to actors and of course it is business.  The whole thing looks like 
>its some remake of lawrence of arabia.  You can see speibergian aesthetics 
>behind this whole war.  He doesn't need to make the films any more they 
>are making them for him.
>As to why it looks like film just look at who owns Time magazine and what 
>else they own.
>
><http://www.cjr.org/owners/aoltimewarner.asp>http://www.cjr.org/owners/aoltimewarner.asp
>
>"Don't believe illusion, too much is for real" - Johnny Rotten
>
>a