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Free Saudi Arabia
: I love that The West Wing’s plot tonight starts with unprecedented demonstrations for free speech and government in Saudi Arabia. Fiction leads fact.
: A zine — “Backslash Magazine” — gets into the White House press room. Can a blog be far behind?
: What the hell am I doing, blogging a TV show? I’m going to go get a life. I’m going to Taco Bell.
Jeff – you may want to publicize FORBIDDEN IRAN and link people to the promo:
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iran/index.html
It airs tomorrow night – FRONTLINE – 9pm.
Great Work Jeff –
Yes, don’t blog about west wing, please, I’m tivoing it. ;^)
What about free speech in the so-called land of the free…?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTL
yes, is this Jeff? Your regular order?
Jeff, thanks for stealing my thunder. I was going to blog about it myself….
….and I still might.
Do you think Backslash was intended to suggest Slashdot?
I liked the way the Carter-esque (human rights-y one-term ex-president) was played by a guy with Bush I-ish looks.
The dead pres seemed Nixonian, ‘specially when you consider that Clinton gave Nixon’s eulogy.