any indication of which scenes, if any, are authentic.
The blurring of the distinction between actual events and somebody's reenactment
or dramatization of them is a deplorable failure of credibility.
Are people really so stupid that they won't notice that kind of thing?
Maybe so. Remember, they're all educated, and I use the word with
grave misgivings, in the government schools. Part of that education
is learning to accept expert testimony without question.
Some
people might not think that such fabrications are important in a documentary
that portrays events prior to the invention of video technology.
Surely, an apologist might say, everybody knows that video sequences of
events in the Middle Ages must be reenactments. Don't be so sure.
I heard an account, reportedly true, of a discussion that took place in
a high school history class. While discussing some battle that was
fought during the War Between the States, one of the students exclaimed
in surprise, "You mean they didn't have helicopters back then!?"
So, when a documentary shows the count's thugs attacking villagers in medieval
England, it might not occur to some viewers that movie cameras didn't exist
back then. They might assume that they're just watching actual footage
of real events. Remember the high school student. What?
You mean they didn't have cameras back then?
I'm
very much in favor of documentaries. I'd like for them to be credible.
How to achieve that credibility is uncertain. Here's a suggestion.
On any program that's intended to be a documentary, every frame of every
video segment should be labeled in a corner of the screen. The label
ought to identify the frame as authentic footage, a dramatization, a reenactment,
a simulation, or whatever else it might be. I'm not suggesting government
regulations, just integrity among the producers. Of course, they
could still use false labeling but it's the only thing that I can suggest
that might restore some credibility to documentaries. Failing that,
we might as well just watch America's Funniest Home Videos.
At least those videos are credible. Indeed, AFV is probably
the only credible documentary on the air nowadays and that's a sad comment
on the sorry state of documentaries.
AFV
is a documentary? Of course it is.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Suffrage Is a Lie and a Trap
Sam Aurelius Milam III
You're
not governed by the people that you elect but by the legislation that they
pass. You have a tiny influence on the election but no influence
at all on the legislation. If you don't like the legislation, then
your only option is to vote for somebody else next time. If the incumbent
loses, then that doesn't repeal the legislation that he passed. You're
still governed by it.
Voting
doesn't do you any good. It accomplishes only one thing. It
legitimizes authority. Vote against the police state by not voting.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Letters to the Editor
In
regard to the "Comeuppance"
article [July issue, page 3], I saw the same video clip. Without
knowing exactly what led up to the incident, I think that the cop would
have been in the wrong even if the person he hit had been male. Just
because a person is cursing and acting foolishly, that doesn't justify
such violence. In no way was the cop in danger of being seriously
harmed by that woman. It looked like he just became impatient, and
decided to wallop her. Wasn't all over a jay walking incident?
Must have been a REALLY hot day.
Sir Donald the Elusive
Dear Sam
I
just had to make time to write to say the Frontiersman June 2010 is in
my humble opinion the very best for several years.
Like the earlier ones where your genius just shines everything
was so supremely on target. This came after your July 2010, due to
my moving & forwarding. The person who wrote in the July issue
a derogatory
comment that you weren't told to shut up or some such thing, could
not have shown her own nefarious colors better than to pick this issue
to verbally vomit on. It's better than any other dozen issues combined
over the past 2-3 years. None have ever been bad or useless, mind
you all have been useful just this one is that much better than the
others. (Not only your main
piece, tho mainly that, but Stray
Thoughts & the Reagan
quote were also exceptional).
Thank
you again for another excellent Frontiersman. This one covers so
vastly much of the whole picture, our entire plight & its solution
that I wish it could be available to every American to savor Not mandatory,
of course....
FL, of Vacaville, California
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