Democracy Now! (7am), for August 24, 2011 - 7:00am
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The One Billion Dollar Question: Who Are the Libyan Rebels?; The 9/11 TV News Archive: 3,000 Hours of Video News Coverage of 2001 Attacks Posted Online; Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age.
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This country can spend billions per year on unnecessary, immoral wars but can't afford to
maintain seismographs in its nuclear power stations. How crazy is this?
The work by Perlinger and Khale is a form of social service. There are cultures that deal with books as sacred scripts that people place on their eyes with respect, and consider as "Saraswati" - the Goddess of knowledge, education and the arts.To make it available to the poor, the disenfranchised, the homeless, the nomads, the young, minorities, immigrants and for those for whom knowledge or information has been denied or limited...is a "service of the greatest kind".
As they archive footags of Sept 11 events (that have been played over and over again in so many TV channels for over ten years) are they providing information on this Libyan news reporting. I watch the news, then read the comments from around the world and then I notice so many gaps in the way pictures are shown, presented and analyzed. Suddenly I become aware of the vantage point, editing and may be possible doctoring. Is it? I am too naive. Is there anyone from objective news agencies, even Democracy Now!, looking at these footages as presented by CNN, FOX, MSNBC?