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| − | Thanks for the suggestions... I encourage you to add what you've looked into on these subjects to Disinfo as well! -- Diane
| + | From 2003 to 2009, Diane Farsetta was a senior researcher and previously a development associate at the Center for Media and Democracy. Questions about SourceWatch can be directed to CMD's Executive Director, Lisa Graves [[User talk:Lisa Graves|Lisa Graves]], and questions about CMD's work can be directed to lisa AT prwatch.org (replace AT with @). |
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| − | Glad to see attention to these matters.
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| − | Re: "[[Haiti]]", looking into the links between economic sanctions which forced a shift to charcoal from kerosene, the [[deforestation]] that resulted, and the killer mudslides that resulted from *that*, has probably been under-explored.
| + | Diane can be reached at farsettad AT gmail.com. |
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| − | The questions about [[dangerous technology]] also are somewhat under-explored except for a few interesting long-term problems like [[molecular assembler]]s. These technology issues need more attention:
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| − | Re: "Lobbying efforts of electronic voting companies" like [[Diebold]], it's interesting to note that people who worked hard on "e-voting" applications, like [[Jason Kitcat]], who was prominent in the original open source GNU e-voting system, literally turned his position around 180 degrees and became convinced that e-voting was dangerous by definition. Many other experts now agree with him, that the disconnection between the body in the community, vs. signals on a wire, is just absolutely unbridgeable. One symptom of that is the loss of control over the voting booth environment which all elections consider important. There's no control for instance on what the voter is looking at just before an Internet vote, or what rewards they might be offered for voting (it being impossible to tell what software is running alongside the "virtual ballot box" and maybe watching the vote - [[spyware]] being extremely common). None of these basic philosophical problems are ever acknowledged in the [[pro-technology propaganda]] of the [[voting machine]] vendors, not surprisingly.
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| − | [[Mad cow]] (caused by cows being ground up into cow food) and [[nuclear power]] seem also caused by [[pro-technology propaganda]] by advocates of these "safe" technologies.
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| − | You may find that older versions of some articles on questions like [[pro-technology propaganda]] have useful text on some of these questions, and, you may also find that the Deletion Log contains many essential articles that have been unrighteously deleted (and which can be undeleted by anyone working here with sysop power, which is not the same as having editorial judgement. ;-))
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| − | Good luck! - [[trolls]]
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| − | ==USDA==
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| − | Hi. Are you by any change interested in the USDA and related subjects? I liked your work on the Venneman article. It is good to see some quality research. I have writen some bios for past Sec's of Agriculture on my site. You can bring them over if you wish. They are [http://www.hierarchypedia.com/wiki/index.php/United_States_Secretary_of_Agriculture here].
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| − | I have only done:
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| − | # Edward R. Madigan
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| − | # Michael Espy
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| − | # Daniel Glickman
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| − | # Norman J. Coleman
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| − | All the best --[[User:Hierarchypedia|Hierarchypedia]] 17:12, 21 Feb 2005 (EST)
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| − | == coors ==
| + | See [[User:Diane Farsetta/Archive]] for text previously posted here. |
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| − | hi DF
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| − | did you delete a new article or one that had a history?? I suspect the latter.
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| − | Kind rgds
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| − | Dear Paul,<br>
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| − | I just checked to make sure, and the Coors Foundation article didn't have a history. (There's a safeguard that reminds you that there's a revision history if you're about to delete an article with one.)<br>
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| − | best, Diane
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| − | == mush as most americans ==
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| − | you have just transformed the epic article into the usual american mush -- unwilling to show a bit of backbone. nb: the booklist in its reading list is prticularly telling: the choice of a pathetic list of propaganda books (Makiya, Feldman, etc.). furthermore, their own words on their stance. for you to expunge the critical comment on several issues is pathetic.
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| − | epic, ot, and several others, are stool pigeons that happen not to represent anti-war, although they vie for voicing their opinions during anti-war demos or the organization thereof.
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| − | your interpretation of "red baiting" is screwy.
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| − | [[User:Antidotto|Antidotto]]
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| − | Dear Antidotto,
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| − | Regarding the [[Education for Peace in Iraq Center]] article - most of my changes were to add information, including quotes from EPIC's website and press release. All SourceWatch articles should include information from numerous sources, including the person / organization in question, as outlined [[SourceWatch:Policy|here]].
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| − | I also did remove a some of what I deemed irrelevant information -- including Stan Goff's claim that his critique of EPIC might be dismissed as "red-baiting." I just don't see how that belongs in an article on EPIC, especially as I have not found any mention of EPIC or others dismissing Goff because of his association with the ''Socialist Worker''. Of course, Goff's critique of EPIC is relevant, and I kept that in the article.
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| − | To expand upon my explanation on the EPIC article's [[Talk:Education for Peace in Iraq Center|talk page]], I edited the article because I felt it was presenting one side of one critique of an organization -- and that based on one person's writing and unsupported claims made about a partial characterization of EPIC's "Suggested Reading" list.
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| − | As you know, the beauty of SourceWatch is that you can continue to add to or edit the article if you disagree. However, in order to make SourceWatch a website worth reading, all contributors are asked to follow [[SourceWatch:Policy|basic guidelines]], including fairness and respect for other contributors.
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| − | --[[User:Diane Farsetta|Diane Farsetta]]
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| − | == bit of Glover Park data ==
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| − | Newshounds, a sort of blog with the slogan,
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| − | :'''''We watch Fox news so you don't have too:'''''
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| − | had a Glover Park article today:
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| − | [http://www.newshounds.us/2005/04/28/dont_count_us_out_newscorps_phony_grassroots_org.php News Hounds: "Don't Count Us Out" -- NewsCorp's Phony "Grassroots" Org]
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| − | Greg Beato, a writer at Wonkette is [http://www.wonkette.com/politics/media/index.php#down-for-the-count-101532 blogged it here]
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| − | I checked S/W to see if this has been picked-up by anyone, and found your authorship on the stub. Sorry if the data is already known to you or irrelevant.
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| − | cheers --[[User:Hugh Manatee|Hugh Manatee]] 04:10, 29 Apr 2005 (EDT)
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| − | =="Fox Effect"==
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| − | You may already have seen this, but thought it was more in your area than mine, which is the "Fox Effect" (from [http://www.prwatch.org/node/1880 "MSNBC & CNN Imitating the Far-Right 'Fox Effect'"] at PRWatch). I "collected" the article links which accompanied the main article, as well.
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| − | *[http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/05/pbs-suffers-fox-effect.html "PBS Suffers the 'Fox Effect',"] ''Media Citizen'' blogspot, May 3, 2005.
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| − | :*[http://www.freepress.net/press/release.php?id=64 Press Release: "Consumer advocates and media reformers call for nationwide hearings on Public. Broadcasting Groups unveil strategy to protect public broadcasting,"] ''Free Press'', April 28, 2005.
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| − | :*Stephen Labaton, Lorne Manly & Elizabeth Jensen, [http://www.freepress.net/news/7995 "Republican chairman exerts pressure on PBS, alleging biases,"] ''New York Times'', May 2, 2005.
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| − | :*John Eggerton, [http://www.freepress.net/news/8022 "Tomlinson praises Lehrer; pushes balance,"] ''Broadcasting and Cable'', May 2, 2005.
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| − | :*[http://www.freepress.net/action/pbs "Save PBS from partisan operatives,"] ''Free Press'' petition.
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| − | :*[http://www.freepress.net/hallofshame/ Big Media Hall of Shame: Rupert Murdock], ''Free Press''.
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| − | [[User:Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] 07:32, 3 May 2005 (EDT)
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| − | == panegyric ==
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| − | a citation's worth in credibility is a matter of personal estimation. i would consider any association with [http://counterpunch.org/farsetta05142005.html Alexander the Curmedgeon] to be of high value.
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| − | also, excuse my curious [http://tinyurl.com/cx6xm gogling], i'd probably respond with a precipitant mutiplicity of suedoe creationism on a personal return like this, although it did offer possible origins for faint wisps of deja vu, my aging eyes have sensed in the periphery when seeing you name in print.
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| − | will peace, madwoman - --[[User:Hugh Manatee|Hugh Manatee]] 18:07, 19 May 2005 (EDT)
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| − | Diane, I'm sure that you've been to [http://www.blogsforbush.com/ Blogs for Bush.com] but while looking for Bush+Hurricane Katrina this morning discovered that there is a lot of info there about the anti-Cindy caravan and other appearances. Thought you might like to check it out .. just have to scan through a lot of "stuff" .... [[User:Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] 16:38, 2 Sep 2005 (EDT)
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| − | Diane, thanks for the article. I'll leave it long enough for BB and AI to see it, and if they haven't deleted it, I will. They usually cycle through Sourcewtch early mornings (my time PST).
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| − | Also, in case you haven't the other places i've mentioned this; i just ran across an interesting doc:
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| − | Coalition Provisional Authority "Industry Day" Event Crystal City, Virginia, November 19, 2003
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| − | [http://www.export.gov/Iraq/events/cpa_industry_day_regs.xls MS Excel spreadsheet] - 222kb
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| − | might come in handy for researching in the future. I've dl'ed it, but i can be messy with tagging and placing documents where i find them again easily 6 months from now.
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| − | cheers - --[[User:Hugh Manatee|Hugh Manatee]] 19:58, 1 Dec 2005 (EST)
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| − | Hi Diane, I am attempting to make some small modifications to the Monsanto pages but continue to get the message "This page cannot be displayed" when I submit. I have tried this in the past on several different computers all with the same problem. In some places there appears to be a time constraint on submitting, or is this a registration matter?
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| − | Well you're the one with the ultimate delete key I suppose, but may I beg to differ? The comments are not dealing with an exact scientific point of fact but with a general opinion on genetic engineering done slap-dash for monetary gain and in which all of the consequences were not well thought out in advance - which this company is guilty of in the opinion of many. In fact the entire movie can be viewed as a commentary on reckless G.E. The particular comments put these thoughts quite succinctly. Besides this I don't see any difference in quoting a movie making a general comment about an ongoing social issue and quoting a book or magazine article. One of the quotes on the list is a general opinion from a college paper. Should this be deleted? This prompts the question, is there some list of approved publications or types of media that we can only quote from? Are you claiming that no one in wikipedia or sourcewatch has quoted anything from a movie? BTW I agree that we wouldn't quote from a movie for point of fact. But this was not claiming to be so.
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| − | Regarding the Jurassic Park movie quote, I honestly don't think it belongs in the [[Monsanto]] article. If you look at the [[SourceWatch:About]], the [[SourceWatch:Policy]], and [[SourceWatch:Contributing]] pages, you'll note that they stress that SourceWatch is an encyclopedia and contributors are encouraged to use [[w:News style|News style]] writing, so that articles will be useful to researchers, journalists, and the like.
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| − | If the article in question were on the portrayal of GMOs in popular culture, then quoting from Jurassic Park would be very appropriate. (And I of course agree with you that the movie is a critique of genetic engineering.) But, it's an article on the Monsanto company (which should be devoted to their activities, products, lobbying, PR campaigns, etc). I'm not saying that the quote doesn't have any place in SourceWatch, just that it doesn't make sense to have it on the Monsanto page.
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| − | [[User:Diane Farsetta|Diane Farsetta]] 19:04, 13 Jan 2006 (EST)
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| − | Thanks for the reply. I looked at the pages you referred to and it appears that there is no specific policy on which sources one can quote from, at least that I could see, and I saw nothing on movies. I did see this comment on the [[SourceWatch:Policy]] page: "''It is important to note that the particular implementation of at least some of these policies is still in a state of evolution, as SourceWatch grows and develops''." It thus seems to me that the decision to remove the quote is one based on personal preference not on an actual written policy. That being the case, do I not have at least equal right to include the quote? Further, as the article's author and since there is no policy, do I not have even ''more'' right in this decision? Again, remember that the comments are obviously not dealing with a technical point of fact (I wouldn't use a fiction movie for such) but with an opinion on the subject (in a comment section) - ''and a well put one that many people share''.
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| − | Thanks for the Channel One input Diane. We seem to be undergoing a tidal wave of folks attempting to either distance themselves from Abramoff, edit out information and edit in spin, or just plain trying to "pretty up" a very ugly picture.
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| − | In fact, every time it happens, it provides incentive to dig deeper and find out what else has not yet been uncovered, i.e. the case of [[Peter Roff]]. Eliminating the ''Washington Times'' as his "employer" and trying to "tidy up" his image just led to a deluge of less-than-flattering info on him ... sans editorializing. [[User:Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] 12:19, 20 Jan 2006 (EST)
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| − | Regarding the edits in [[U.S. military presence in Paraguay]], I had checked this quote when I first saw it. The quoted sentence, "Paraguay was the only country to accept the offer." <u>does indeed appear in [http://towardfreedom.com/home/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=593 the citation] as quoted</u>; it is further cited by [http://upsidedownworld.org/US-in-Paraguay.htm another Dangl piece] to http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/us-relations/loss.htm
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| − | Perhaps if another country (only Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela were referenced in the quotation [being a Latin America concern]), then it should be so noted, and cited, outside of the quotation.
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| − | <br>--[[User:Maynard|Maynard]] 21:24, 27 Jan 2006 (EST)
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| − | Dear Diane, Thanks for pointing out the oversight. I should have got into the habit of posting notes on the changes a long time back. Better late than never, I guess. Cheers! --[[User:Idrees|Idrees]] 20:21, 12 Apr 2006 (EDT)
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| − | P.s. The Fake news story on Democracy Now was great.
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