FROM XIAN TO MILAN-- speaking at business conference to responsive 2,500 IT execs, mostly Italian. Italy has always been kind to me and my films. On to Munich, where preparations continue for our Snowden film. One of the loveliest cities in Europe. … And now Moscow where sun alternates with freezing gray skies. More research is ongoing on our script. Also pleased to report am doing the long-running, Cold War veteran Vladimir Pozner TV show for “Untold History,” which is a best seller in book form here-- and an upcoming TV presentation on Russia’s premiere Channel One. Which brings us to why this talk of ‘Cold War 2.0’? I really think the US media has lost their minds. See these disturbing articles by Robert Parry—“How the Washington Press Turned Bad” bit.ly/1tQIs9o and “Treating Putin Like a Lunatic” bit.ly/1wWtAc4. I experienced the wrath of the late, overly lamented Ben Bradlee on the telephone. He was among many who attacked “JFK,” going to great lengths to discredit the film before it was ever seen. Also just heard that our staunchest DC defender Frank Mankiewicz, Press Secretary to Robert Kennedy at the time of his death, just passed on. A real fighter for the light. RIP Frank. Can’t say the same for a man like Bradlee who helped turn the Washington Post into the graveyard of progress it’s become. Just read another New York Times typical mindset piece on Oct 30, from Mark Landler, “At a time when the Obama administration is lurching from crisis to crisis — a looming Cold War in Europe, a brutal Islamic caliphate in the Middle East and a deadly epidemic in West Africa, to name just the most obvious ones- it is not surprising that long-term strategy would take a back seat.” These ‘crises’ are really in the heads of this ‘groupthink’ Establishment class. Who created this so called Cold War? Who meddled in the Ukraine? Who created the conditions for ISIS? Who is meddling again with airstrikes in the Middle East? As to the Ebola crisis—think of it as a weekly news show which needs ratings. It’s depressing how sensation and money drives our news. Now the true Ebola has infected the minds of our media and they are seriously leading our country astray. The virus is within, not without.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:54:37 +0000
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