Re: CIA's Work With Filmmakers Puts All Media Workers at Risk (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:33:19 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > From: [** utf-8 charset **] FAIR<http://www.fair.org/~fair>
 >  > Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 21:35:59 +0000
 >  > 
 >  > The Agency, for example, secretly bought the rights to Animal Farm 
 >  > after Orwellâ??s death in 1950 and produce an animated adaptation centered 
 >  > on demonizing the Soviet Union rather than capturing Orwellâ??s broader 
 >  > critiques of power.

Wow, is the one we saw?

 >  > At the peak of 
 >  > his activities,â?? according to the Guardian, he was â??operating 30 
 >  > companies in 17 countries and brokering deals worth hundreds of millions of 
 >  > dollars,â?? an arrangement that, Milchan told the BBC (11/26/13), involved 
 >  > Sydney Pollackâ??director of Sabrina, Tootsie and, ironically enough, Three 
 >  > Days of the Condor.

That is ironic.

 >  > We 
 >  > praise the latter without acknowledging the glaring fact that it helps set 
 >  > the stage for the latter.

Um, what?  Is this a typo?

 >  > Every time this type of behavior is 
 >  > normalized, or shrugged off, or made sexy, real journalists and real 
 >  > filmmakers overseas are put further at risk.

Maybe this is part of the plan: simply kill off more troublesome
journalists and investigative reporters as a matter of course.

 >  > Adam Johnson is a contributing analyst for FAIR.org. Follow him on Twitter 
 >  > at @AdamJohnsonNYC.