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18 May, 2005: Over the past couple of weeks, during the extension of my hejira, I have undergone quite a learning experience. I shall begin by sharing some of what I have been taught with you.

1. There is a relatively large, international community of interest that is supportive of the type of journalism -- alternative, personal/public-interest journalism -- produced by this Web site.

   The response to our work, requests to reprint important commentaries or use them in research papers and classroom presentations, published in these pages continues to this day and is gratifying to both the writers and me. From the long-ago Matthew Shepard piece by PHIL MARTIN, to TOM HARGROVE's piece which led to his congressional testimony, to RON DIENER's work on the U.S. electoral college, to the work of the many fine contributors to our Op-Ed (RDR) page over the years, your response(s) have evidenced an appreciation for the kind of journalism your World's Magazine has to offer.

   In the last two weeks, it has been brought to my attention, as well, that our support of new African voices has been appreciated and made an impact on the dialogue the Internet has to offer.
   
   

2. I have also been made aware, from both writers and Loyal Readers, that there is a community out there that identifies G21 with me personally and takes my helmsmanship of this enterprise seriously.

   I have joked in the past about "Rod's Fan Club" when referring to some of the mail that comes in regularly to my e-mail "In" box but that phrase was always used only half in jest. I take the weight of my responsibility to the "Fan Club" to keep the level of what we offer here high and diverse quite seriously. Your recent private messages to me evidence that the effort has not been entirely unappreciated.
   
   

3. Finally, the importance of brave and challenging journalism to democracy itself has been brought home to me by confluence of sources -- both directly related to this Web magazine and independent of it -- during this last two weeks.

I would like to talk about those influences on my thinking, what they have taught me, and what they mean for the future of this endeavor.

It is entirely coincidental that -- while I was reading Knightfall: KNIGHT RIDDER and How the Erosion of NEWSPAPER JOURNALISM Is Putting DEMOCRACY AT RISK by Davis Merritt (AMACOM, 2005) -- the National Conference on Media Reform should be taking place in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, last week. At the conclusion of the conference, on Sunday, 15 May, 2005, Bill Moyers, a journalist I have referenced before in this space, made another stirring speech -- part of which I shall cite and share related links to with you below. The two influences proved fortuitous, I believe.

Despite my disclaimers about not being a book reviewer, the publicist for Mr. Merritt's book had contacted me about producing a potential review, believing that the topic was "up my alley," so to speak. (It seems that people take my whining about not being a book reviewer as seriously as my former whining about preferring not to be considered primarily an editor.) Mr. Merritt is an excellent person to write this critique of the decline of newspaper journalism and of the Knight Ridder news organization, having spent four decades with Knight Newspapers and Knight Ridder. What he has to say is both insightful and disturbing to anyone who believes that newspaper journalism is a point of reference and sets the agenda across all of our news media and anyone who takes seriously the idea that journalism is a public trust. I am still debating whether or not I am up to producing a suitable review for this important book.

To get back to the point of this riff, I'll share with you what Mr. Merritt has to say at the conclusion of Knightfall.

For newspapers driven by the bottom line, people are seen as customers to be wooed rather than citizens to be helped, and the nation is seen as an audience to be accumulated and tallied rather than a democracy to be cherished and sustained.

The great irony is that in America no one, no authority, can dictate what newspapers ought to do. The democracy that sustains journalism is itself sustained by responsible, public-oriented journalism. Newspaper companies that fail to understand that connection and fail to act as if it matters will not only destroy themselves but democracy itself.

Democracy, finally, is us: the people who invest in newspaper companies and those who don't; the people who want news and opinion that confirm their biases and those who want news and opinion that challenge their inclinations ...

I believe, and it is inherent in the G21 philosophy, that the distinctions drawn in the last paragraph quoted are important ones.

To continue the point, I'd like to share with you Bill Moyer's address to the Media Reform conference this past week. You can find an overview of other issues covered, and get some context from this news article. Here is part of what Mr. Moyers had to say to the journalists, from across the spectrum of media, at the conference:

Jonathan Mermin writes about this in a recent essay in "World Policy Journal." (You'll also want to read his book, "Debating War and Peace, Media Coverage of US Intervention in the Post Vietnam Era.")

Mermin quotes David Ignatius of the Washington Post on why the deep interests of the American public are so poorly served by beltway journalism. The "rules of our game," says Ignatius, "make it hard for us to tee up an issue ... without a news peg." He offers a case in point: the debacle of America's occupation of Iraq. "If Senator so and so hasn't criticized post-war planning for Iraq," says Ignatius, "then it's hard for a reporter to write a story about that."

Mermin also quotes public television's Jim Lehrer acknowledging that unless an official says something is so, it isn't news. Why were journalists not discussing the occupation of Iraq? Because, says Lehrer, "the word occupation ... was never mentioned in the run-up to the war." Washington talked about the invasion as "a war of liberation, not a war of occupation, so as a consequence, "those of us in journalism never even looked at the issue of occupation."

"In other words," says Jonathan Mermin, "if the government isn't talking about it, we don't report it." He concludes, "[Lehrer's] somewhat jarring declaration, one of many recent admissions by journalists that their reporting failed to prepare the public for the calamitous occupation that has followed the 'liberation' of Iraq, reveals just how far the actual practice of American journalism has deviated from the First Amendment ideal of a press that is independent of the government."

Take the example (also cited by Mermin) of Charles J. Hanley. Hanley is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Associated Press, whose fall 2003 story on the torture of Iraqis in American prisons -- before a U.S. Army report and photographs documenting the abuse surfaced -- was ignored by major American newspapers. Hanley attributes this lack of interest to the fact that "It was not an officially sanctioned story that begins with a handout from an official source." Furthermore, Iraqis recounting their own personal experience of Abu Ghraib simply did not have the credibility with beltway journalists of American officials denying that such things happened. Judith Miller of The New York Times, among others, relied on the credibility of official but unnamed sources when she served essentially as the government stenographer for claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

These "rules of the game" permit Washington officials to set the agenda for journalism, leaving the press all too often simply to recount what officials say instead of subjecting their words and deeds to critical scrutiny. Instead of acting as filters for readers and viewers, sifting the truth from the propaganda, reporters and anchors attentively transcribe both sides of the spin invariably failing to provide context, background or any sense of which claims hold up and which are misleading.

I decided long ago that this wasn't healthy for democracy. I came to see that "news is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity."

[The complete speech can be found at the Common Dreams Web site.] This assessment supports many of Mr. Merritt's contentions, and the major thesis of his book, while also giving some heft to our time-honored practice in this space of referring to much of what passes for news in other quarters as the parroting of the "Mouthpiece Media" (MM.)

My quibbles with and derision for the MM is of long-standing and you have read my case against their failures too often. I have also, I trust, tried to point out in word and deed what the alternative to their practices could be; if my own economics were better, I would have done much more in this direction.

If you believe -- as we here at the G21, and others like Mr. Moyers, Danny Schecter of MediaChannel, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, to mention only a few -- that democracy itself depends on an informed citizenry rather than a brainwashed one and that when the media empowered to provide information and news fail to do so democracy itself is imperiled, then you must also believe, as we do, that journalism and democracy are now in crisis.

When broadcast news outlets present, without comment, identification or disclaimer, government produced segments as though they were regular news features; when government pays ("bribes " is a better word) journalists to hype its agenda(s); when corporate boardrooms of non-journalists set the agenda for what is reported based on bottom-line, Wall Street-driven considerations or fears of government reprisal rather than on the value of the information for the populace; what else can we call it but crisis. It is a crisis, in this view, of Orwellian proportions.

I, thus, must strongly encourage you to support those of us in the "alternative" media, print, television, radio and here on the Internet, who are not part of the increasing homogenization -- especially here in the United States -- and corporatization of information and news.

Too often, as evidenced by the sidebar on this page and our cover, we must cloyingly beg for your financial support and your continued attention. We have no other choice, sadly, because the Other Side (dare I say, "the Dark Side," on this weekend of the last installment of the new "Star Wars" trilogy?) can offer you Britney Spears, 50 Cent, the spin of "official sources" and "reality" programming while all we have to offer is researched and vetted facts. They stand for your entertainment and titillation, more often than is healthy, in my view, while all we can stand for is your best interests. We're not very sexy, therefore, by any standard of measurement.

In our collective defense, and in the particular defense of an enterprise like GENERATOR 21, I can only offer this: where would important voices like those mentioned in my first numbered item in the introduction to this entry like MPUTHUMI NTABENI or GAYNOR PAYNTER from South Africa; KEVIN CAREY from Sussex, England; AAMENA JIWAJI -- especially as controversial as some of her work has proven to be or; PHIL MARTIN and so many others that I only fail to mention in the interests of brevity find a home if journalism like that offered here did not exist?

I am not asserting that we are the only Web publication to produce this type of journalism but I can easily assert that we are one of the long-running sites to have done it continuously over the last decade. We continue to grow and refine our approach, we continue to endure and change but we can only do so with your financial, loyal and word-of-mouth support. Those are the plain facts.

That support, of course, includes letting us know -- without reservation -- what you believe we are doing right and where you feel we miss the mark. That support includes your suggestions and recommendations. In a medium like this one, your silence can be deafening and your comments are like pure gold. You cannot begin to know how important it is to the writers here and myself, how encouraging it is, when you take the time to send us an e-mail about the work being offered.

These are among the things I've learned during the last two weeks, after moving our "palatial World Headquarters" to another part of the American South. I am grateful for these lessons, from you, from Messrs. Merritt and Moyers.

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LET US NOTE that there has been far less reporting on the insurgency in Iraq among the MM usual suspects lately. This is coincident with the fact that since the institution of the new "democracy" in Iraq -- over the last eighty (80) days -- there have been more successful insurgent attacks (read: more deaths) than in all of 2004.

And you continue believe that you get "real news" on TV?

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ON THIS QUESTION OF THE PROSPECTS FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY -- a question about which I am less than sanguine, as you know -- I find the new series on social mobility begun by the New York Times this past weekend germane. Under the heading, "Class in America: Shadowy Lines That Still Divide", we find this passage:

One surprising finding about mobility is that it is not higher in the United States than in Britain or France. It is lower here than in Canada and some Scandinavian countries but not as low as in developing countries like Brazil, where escape from poverty is so difficult that the lower class is all but frozen in place.

Those comparisons may seem hard to believe. Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen. The founding document of the United States proclaims all men to be created equal. The American economy has also grown more quickly than Europe's in recent decades, leaving an impression of boundless opportunity.

But the United States differs from Europe in ways that can gum up the mobility machine. Because income inequality is greater here, there is a wider disparity between what rich and poor parents can invest in their children. Perhaps as a result, a child's economic background is a better predictor of school performance in the United States than in Denmark, the Netherlands or France, one recent study found.

"Being born in the elite in the U.S. gives you a constellation of privileges that very few people in the world have ever experienced," Professor Levine said. "Being born poor in the U.S. gives you disadvantages unlike anything in Western Europe and Japan and Canada."

This posted for your consideration, comment and discussion.

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INSIDE G21

I FIRST ENCOUNTERED ETHAN CASEY, another journalist and writer who has travelled extensively, when he became Editor of the Web journal Blue Ear. I'm not sure whether I found Blue Ear on my own or whether, those many years ago, Ethan sought me out because our sites had basically the same mission: bringing international perspectives to American audiences via the World Wide Web (WWW.) In any event, both Ethan and I found a synergy between our sites and worked on a couple of projects together in the early days of Blue Ear .

Sadly, Blue Ear's idea of how to achieve the mission and G21's tended to diverge over the course of our relationship and we did not pursue (what seemed to me) a natural affinity and synergy.

Blue Ear became another ghost site last year. Ethan sent me his version of the post-mortem and asked that we stay in touch. I was gratified and pleased to do so. He's a fine writer and an internationalist, like myself, who believes in high journalistic standards and getting under-heard voices before the public.

For these reasons, it's my honor to share with you Ethan's short address at the Royal Geographical Society in London's event to benefit The Citizens Foundation. The entirety of his speech is reprinted in this edition, by permission, in our GLOBAL*BEAT section. I hope you'll take the time to read it.

As an aside, let me add that Ethan shared the stage with fellow authors Kathleen Jamie (Among Muslims) and Michael Palin (Himalaya.) He says, in his e-mail describing the experience:

... Kathleen read a moving passage from her book, and Michael entertained us all with a half-hour slide show and was extremely gracious in every way -- first and foremost by having made the event possible by agreeing to take part.

Friends of The Citizens Foundation, the British arm of The Citizens Foundation, planned and organised the event and brought it off impeccably. The Citizens Foundation builds schools and provides progressive schooling for tens of thousands of poor children in Pakistan. I can hardly imagine a better use in today's world for anyone's time, money or other resources. I learned a bit about The Citizens Foundation's work from a short documentary shown at the April 28 event, and I urge you to learn about it by visiting: http://www.ftcf.org.uk - and consider supporting its important work financially.

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MPUTHUMI ("Mpush") NTABENI's pieces are usually the most challenging for me as an editor but also among the most thoughtful and heartfelt we have published here. Thus, it's a natch for me to recommend you to his latest work in G21 AFRICA this week.

His topic is political again. This time he tackles British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa.

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California's H. SCOTT PROSTERMAN has made our Op-Ed page, RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT (RDR,) his new home, it seems. It's the place where we still allow for Old School Web rants. This week, he takes on Congressman Eric Cantor, Republican-Virginia. They are both Jewish, but there the similarity ends, as Scott points out.

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ON A LIGHTER NOTE, the responses to our most recent Readership Poll appear in this edition. Thanks to all of you who took part!

Take a moment to read them, please. We found them quite amusing!

Also on that page (and below), you'll find our newest poll. Enjoy!

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UPCOMING, I have taken the Activist Editor stance of this year by following our focuses on Black Heritage and the World's Women by assigning our best writers to produce a three-part series focusing on the HIV/AIDS epidemic for part of your summer reading. In conjunction with this effort, we shall be going back to weekly publication during the month of June, now that I have achieved some level of stability in my personal life. I hope you'll follow this series and share your thoughts on our contribution to the dialogue with us.

Stay tuned.

The G21 READERSHIP POLL

As noted in our 2004 year-end Person of the Year poll, there are people making positive contributions to life on Earth. All-too-often, we focus far afield in those types of surveys rather than close to home. So this poll asks you to reverse that trend.

THE POLL QUESTION: What five people in your personal life or community have had the greatest impact for good for you and/or your family and neighbors?

DEADLINE: 30 JUNE, 2005. The responses and results will appear in July. Thanks in advance!

NEWS TO ROD

ITEM ONE: I'm sure you've seen the photos by now. Just about everyone paying attention in the world has. We now have the answer to that burning question, "Saddam Hussein: boxers or briefs?"

I found the most published of the photos while trawling the BBC Web site on Friday, 20 May. By Saturday, 21 May, the photo was on the cover of my local newspaper, The News & Observer out of Raleigh, NC, USA, as its lead item. That organ reports that the photos appeared in two Murdoch-owned papers, the Sun in the UK and the New York Post in the US.

We all know, of course, that the Murdoch empire, which includes the Fox News Network in the United States, has absolutely no contacts in the United States government and doesn't act as part of its propaganda arm. (Ahem!)

This is not another blatant flouting of the Geneva Conventions. The United States Department of Defense has assured us that no one in the US military had anything to do with the release of these photos and that a full investigation is under way. (Ahem!)

I made the comment to my housemate about a week ago that I have stopped listening to "official" statements and most of the "news" generated here in the States anymore because I learned long ago -- among the many things I'm learning -- that lying has become Standard Operating Procedure (S.O.P.) for the Bush government.

ITEM TWO: Yours Unruly discovered the Institute for Southern Studies, out of Durham, North Carolina, while trawling the 'Net the other day. I figured that if I am mired in the American South since returning to this country four years ago, I might as well invest some effort in attempting to understand more about these people. The site is worth a look when you have the time.

In this instance, I bring the Institute up because of an interesting item they ran about the impact of locating military bases in the United States -- germane to the recent Pentagon announcement of planned base closings. The plan for military base closings was a big story in the MM around the country, as you know, Luv. My beloved Connecticut took a big hit in Mr. Rumsfeld's plans. You gottah admire Senator Joseph Lieberman's effectiveness in defending the interests of his constituency.

Here's a brief quote from the item entitled "Base Closings and the South," launched here on the Web on Friday, 13 May, 2005:

... But while the national news is of gloom and doom, with communities gearing up to fight for hometown bases on which they have come to depend, the story for the South is one of increasing its share of military bases and heightening its stake in the military economy.

The South has historically been home to a disproportionate share of military installations. While the region holds under a third of the nation's population, in the Institute's last analysis in 2002, 56% of troops nationally were stationed in the South. Anchored in base-rich states like Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia, this has led to a network of "military towns" like Fort Bragg, N.C. (expertly described in Dr. Catherine Lutz's excellent book, "Homefront") which exert a powerful political, economic and cultural influence in the region.

Given the South's dependence on military towns, the Pentagon's list of proposed closings was highly anticipated in the region. But while the South would lose 62 of the 180 installations slated for closure, the region as a whole stands to gain from the Pentagon's first major base realignment in a decade:

*** While the Pentagon calls for net cut of 26,000 military and civilian personnel at U.S. bases, the South stands to gain a net total of 15,500 positions at over 50 bases that will grow in stature. Five of the top 10 states in base growth are located in the South. ...

[Emphasis ours. -- RA]

ITEM THREE: Where Yours Unruly resides now there is access to the DishTV satellite network. Thus, I am not only afforded the joy of watching Amy Goodman's wonderful broadcasts of the "Democracy Now!" news series but also can follow CSPAN's great public service of showing us the deliberations of the United States House of Representatives and Senate.

This week the Senate has been debating the Republican initiative to end the use of the filibuster when considering judicial nominations. What this jaundiced observer has noticed is that both sides of this argument claim to acting in defense of tradition. Others have, as well. Objectively speaking, it is a logical impossibility that both sides could be acting in defense of tradition. Thus, any reasonable person must conclude that one side of this argument is lying.

My friend, Ric, in Texas, has railed against me for years for claiming that there is such a thing as "Truth." He is a poet, and thus feels that his assertion is a defensible position. My bent has been toward journalism, even in the production of fiction, so I shall always disagree. As the opening of this entry evidences, the Apollonian view here on Mount Olympus is that if you gut the journalistic process of sussing out the truth then you are only left with the parrot-reporting that goes "This side says this and that side says that" and nothing else. No commentary, no analysis, no calling one side of the given debate or the other to account for lying or obfuscation.

That is not what journalism is all about. If journalism is to be a public service, it has to include accountability and truth-seeking.

One side in the Senate debate on the practice of the filibuster is lying. It's that simple.

As the Senate Black Caucus has observed, the practice of the filibuster has been used against the interests of Black Americans as part of the tradition of that body for almost the entire history of the body. A long-term Senator from North Carolina, where Yours Unruly now resides, often used the filibuster to block legislation favorable to the interests of Black Americans in his own state and the nation. So this debate has a personal element for me as a Black American.

Within the context of this essay, I shan't take it upon myself to tell you who is spinning the lie; I shall simply say that it's important for you as a citizen to admit that lies exist -- and if you make that admission, then you also must accept that truths exist, too.

This is what I have learned.

Thanks for coming back this week.

THINGS I PRAY FOR THIS WEEK

1 - A job that I can enjoy and that enjoys me. Soon. As soon as possible.

2 - A girlfriend.

3 - That my gratefulness for Vickie's return is accepted.

"Work like you don't need the money,
"Love like you've never been hurt,
"Dance like no one is watching ... "

Love,
Rod

ROD AMIS has published this magazine since 1990. It first appeared as a hardcopy 'Zine. In March, 1996, he launched it here on the Web. Rod was a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he wrote the " 'Net Publishing" feature. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, NRV8, and at the (U.S.) Public Broadcasting System (PBS's) WebLab's Reality Check site. Rod was a contributing writer on technology for Faulkner Information Services. He wrote on Web issues for MethodFive.com's Hyper newsletter.

Rod was a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he wrote over two hundred articles on web design and development issues. He was principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviewed technology issues weekly, producing 383 editorials. He became the Managing Editor for Electronic Mail/Newsletter Publications at Andover.net at the end of February, 2000, and left in September of the same year. He was a contributing writer for ACCESS Internet magazine, which appeared both on- and offline for 10 million readers in 100 newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Boston Herald, Austin American-Statesman, Denver Post and Orlando Sentinel, among others. Rod was the US reporter for Silicon.com, a division of Network Multimedia Television in London, UK, reaching 3.5 million European readers, until May, 2001.

In 2002, he worked as Assistant to the General Manager of a Big Easy company that does restaurants and nightclubs. He did stints as the Resident Philosopher at three separate gin mills in that city in the French Quarter and the Marigny, earning his stripes during two successive Mardi Gras seasons. Oh yeah, Rod's had Day Jobs working construction. Mostly renovations of old New Orleans structures, houses and a bar. Sometimes he designs Web sites for other people so that he can get his creative juices flowing the way he can't at a staid publication like this one. And he's been the instructor in Editing for Internet Publications at the Novi Sad School of Journalism in Yugoslavia.

Our Resident Philosopher is now resuming his hejira and accepting that it is at the core of who he is. The refuge of the road, as Joni Mitchell once sang, for our country's most well-known domestic refugee.

He still needs to find an angel to hire him to do this magazine ...

In his spare time, he chases women in the manner that a fly pursues a spider.

He continues to be committed to integrity, chastity and a dose of humility.

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