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Re: What Documentaries Influenced You Most and Why?
by Ron Lindeboom on Aug 6, 2008 at 8:02:57 pm

I used to be the managing editor of a daily newspaper here in San Luis Obispo County and when I tried to pull the really great stories off the wire and put them in the paper, my publisher overrode my story choices and substituted all kinds of safe stuff. The funny thing is, we were known as the radical paper. In truth? We were safe as mama's milk, not a thing to worry about. I hated it so bad that I eventually quit.

Real news is dead and what masquerades as real news is as disingenuous as the pretty girls and boys reading the prompters and asking during the breaks, "just where is Tanzania anyway? Is it part of Asia?" But they read well and look a damned sight better than Edward R. Murrow.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.



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