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Off with their heads<br />
JOURNALISTS who offered negative commentary<br />
were often targeted by pro-war media outlets.<br />
The Poynter Institute reports on a story you<br />
saw here first: “Michael Wolff received over 3,000<br />
hate e-mails after asking Gen. Vincent Brooks at<br />
a Centcom briefing: ‘Why are we here? Why<br />
should we stay? What’s the value of what we’re<br />
learning at this million-dollar press center?’ He<br />
was also told by a CENTCOM civilian, ‘a thirtyish<br />
Republican operative’: ‘Don’t f–- with things you<br />
don’t understand. This is f–-ing war, asshole . . .<br />
No more questions for you.’<br />
In Los Angles, one website reports: “The executive<br />
producer of a CBS miniseries about Adolf<br />
Hitler’s rise to power has been fired after giving<br />
an interview in which he compared the current<br />
mood of Americans to that of the Germans who<br />
helped Hitler rise to power. According to The<br />
Hollywood Reporter, Gernon was fired Sunday<br />
(April 6) from Alliance Atlantis, the production<br />
company making ‘Hitler: The Rise of Evil’ for<br />
CBS. He had worked there 11 years and was head<br />
of the firm’s long-form programming division.<br />
Neither Gernon nor Alliance Atlantis is commenting<br />
on the matter . . .”<br />
Get Michael Moore<br />
THE New York Post claims that a website<br />
“Revoketheoscar.com has been set up try to strip<br />
filmmaker Michael Moore of his prize for best<br />
documentary. The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s<br />
Steven T. Jones reports, “Instead of being back<br />
at work writing his technology column for the<br />
San Francisco Chronicle last week, Henry Norr<br />
was at home nursing a deep bruise on his leg, the<br />
SO, THIS IS VICTORY<br />
211<br />
result of being shot with a wooden dowel by Oakland<br />
police during an antiwar demonstration.<br />
“His two-week suspension from the paper for<br />
calling in sick and being intentionally arrested<br />
on the first full day of the war should have ended<br />
April 3, but he has been neither formally fired<br />
nor invited to return. And he probably won’t be<br />
welcomed back on terms he can accept, given a<br />
policy change unilaterally implemented by editor<br />
Phil Bronstein. On April 2, Bronstein issued<br />
what he labeled a ‘clarification’ to the Chron’s<br />
conflict-of-interest policy, stating in a memo to<br />
staff, ‘Our responsibility as journalists can only<br />
be met by a strict prohibition against any newsroom<br />
staffer participating in any public political<br />
activity related to the war.’” ●<br />
APRIL 22: WAR IS OVER,<br />
NOW IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON<br />
SAY Goodbye to The War on Iraq, as brought to<br />
you daily by all your news channels, and welcome<br />
back television as usual. With the war<br />
“won” and victory to be officially proclaimed by<br />
General Franks as early as today, the story is<br />
over. Right?<br />
Wrong.<br />
But no matter. Chad was back in action as the<br />
weatherman this morning on CNN and search as<br />
I did, I could find no more forecasts on TV for<br />
Basra. Imagine more sandstorms predicted and<br />
we will know nothing of them!<br />
“It never happened”<br />
GET ready to yawn when you hear about the war