I thought I'd peruse the festival's web page Archived Message Posted by Raskolnikov on March 13, 2019, 9:14 am, in reply to "That was my only hope" wish I hadn't now; it's going to take ages to clean my breakfast of the keyboard. Hans Pool charts the rise of the 'citizen investigative journalist' collective known as Bellingcat, dedicated to redefining breaking news by exploring the promise of open source investigation. This highly skilled and controversial collective exposes the truth behind global news stories – from identifying the exact location of an Islamic State murder through analysis of a video distributed on YouTube, to tracking the story behind the mysterious poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the UK, Bellingcat hunts down answers using social media, reconstruction techniques and audio analysis. From his Leicester home, de facto leader Eliot Higgins and his team of volunteer truth-seekers put newspapers, networks and governments to the test, shedding light on the fight for journalistic integrity in the era of fake news and alternative facts. Then I found a review of this in Variety and I'm really lost for words: As Bellingcat begins to establish itself as a credible alternative to conventional news outlets, RT and others have begun a campaign to discredit Higgins, whose non-expert background — the college dropout launched the site while unemployed and still operates it from his home in Leicester — makes it easy for critics to suggest that he’s a hack, or worse, a mouthpiece for some secret organization’s agenda. It would be easy to lump the Bellingcat gang in with an organization like WikiLeaks, but in many ways, Eliot and his team are the opposite of Julian Assange. Instead of uploading secret data provided to them by sources who presumably stand to gain from its exposure, Eliot et al. ask themselves the questions news media should be posing and then proactively hunt down the answers through every channel available to them. It’s exciting, cloak-and-dagger stuff, no less exciting (or valid) for having been done from someone’s armchair at home. Pool pulls some cheap shots by cutting to Putin, Trump, and Kim Jong-un whenever he needs to personify who they’re up against. But in a world where those three are leading the charge to break the news, Bellingcat are doing their best to put it together again. What a crock of shit this is. https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/idfa-film-review-bellingcat-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-1203031551/ A lot of the other films don't seem particularly hard hitting; a lot of idpol in there and even the one on the guy being released from 15 years in an Israeli prison back to Gaza Screwdriver immerses us in a distinctly Palestinian story while addressing the universal trauma of reintegration after incarceration. so not so much about the occupation. https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/series/human-rights-watch-film-festival-2019 No wonder the fraudian is pushing it. Message Thread: Propaganda on rinse cycle - Raskolnikov March 13, 2019, 6:47 am Re: Propaganda on rinse cycle - dovetailjoint March 13, 2019, 7:22 am Re: Propaganda on rinse cycle - dovetailjoint March 13, 2019, 7:38 am Spin cycle I guess, with a fault.. it just goes on! but really - - David Macilwain March 13, 2019, 8:39 am That was my only hope - Raskolnikov March 13, 2019, 9:00 am I thought I'd peruse the festival's web page - Raskolnikov March 13, 2019, 9:14 am Re: I thought I'd peruse the festival's web page - dovetailjoint March 13, 2019, 10:41 am That was the paragraph that made me spew - Raskolnikov March 13, 2019, 11:14 am just heard Higgins admit something interesting... - David Macilwain March 13, 2019, 12:29 pm Leicester & Coventry - S Cook March 13, 2019, 9:37 am Pants... - Ken Waldron March 13, 2019, 4:58 pm Leicester Uni is a hub for malign influence.. - David Macilwain March 14, 2019, 1:35 am Eulalie....nm - Keith-264 March 13, 2019, 9:57 am   Searching