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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a rare moment when a San Francisco Chronicle Columnist finds common ground with the executive director of the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85677\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Dark-Knight-Rises-batman-film.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-85677\" title=\"Dark Knight Rises batman film\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Dark-Knight-Rises-batman-film-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mick LaSalle found the film \"Dark Knight Rises\" to be \"anti-life.\" (Warner Brothers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That happened this month when Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle put out a call to stanch the flow of cinema carnage. Wayne LaPierre of the NRA made a similar appeal just weeks before. Both were responding to the Dec. 14 massacre of school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, LaSalle isn’t endorsing the NRA’s position whole hog. He still thinks fewer people would shoot each other if there were fewer guns available, a proposition that’s anathema to LaPierre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And LaSalle isn't calling for censorship. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Mick-LaSalle/e/B001KDBDAM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">two books\u003c/a>, he lamented the era from 1934 to 1968 when Hollywood studios voluntarily submitted their films to the Production Code Administration for approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But LaSalle had this to say in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Violent-media-poisoning-nation-s-soul-4160035.php\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 2 essay\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The interaction between real-life and movies is complicated. Some will claim that movies influence behavior, even as producers will invariably insist that movies only reflect society, as though movies were some unobtrusive aspect of culture, unnoticed by the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is that movies and society influence each other in ways that overlap and are therefore arguable. But clearly something seems to be going on, and something is in need of changing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>LaSalle said he had an \"epiphany\" after a gunman, by some accounts dressed as a Batman villain, sprayed bullets at an audience for the film “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colo., last July...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When I saw it at an advance screening, I regarded it as a wallow in nonstop cruelty and destruction, a film that was antilife. But when I wrote the review, I said none of those things, which I considered to be too subjective and personal, and instead concentrated on objective aspects of the movie that I deemed deficient, and I gave it a middling-to-negative review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the events in that movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and suddenly my own writing about this film seemed to me limp and inadequate - no, flat-out pathetic. It's not that \"The Dark Knight Rises\" directly caused a maniac to start killing people in a movie theater; obviously, it didn't. But it did seem to me that the soul-crushing chaos of the film - ultimately reflected in what happened in Aurora - warranted a response that it never got.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Does this mean critics should pass moral judgment on films?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A critic should not end up saying ‘this film offended me,’” LaSalle told me. “Because to say films are good or bad to the extent they comport with my value system is to become useless as a critic. But just because you don’t want to do that doesn’t mean you can’t say that this movie is anti-life. To ignore that 'The Dark Knight Rises' is an ugly, nihilistic vision is not to sidestep a moral judgment, it’s to sidestep making something clear that’s essential to how that movie functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaSalle said that out of 300 to 350 emails, perhaps seven or eight have disagreed with his essay, which appeared in multiple newspapers around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many emails have said ‘you’re so brave,’ but the fact of the matter is that it wasn’t brave because everybody agreed with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaSalle said he’d like to see more pressure put on the Motion Picture Association of America, the trade association for the movie business that rates its own films. He said the association should use violence as a much more important criterion in imposing ratings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically he wants one act of violence in a movie to result in an R rating, just as sex triggers that rating now. “All I’m doing here is saying that guns should be considered as dangerous as nipples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaSalle seems to have scientific research on his side, with multiple studies correlating violence in the media to violence in real life. \"The evidence is now clear and convincing: media violence is 1 of the causal factors of real-life violence and aggression,\" the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded in \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/124/5/1495.full\">a 2009 policy statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise the International Society for Research on Aggression \u003ca href=\"http://www.israsociety.com/pdfs/Media%20Violence%20Commission%20final%20report.pdf\">concluded\u003c/a> that the rating system for movies and other media needs to be improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the Motion Picture Association for a reaction to LaSalle's suggestion, but the director of communications said it would have no comment. That was the response I got from Warner Bros. as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice president Joseph Biden did a little better – he met with some of the heads of major studios along with television producers and theater owners on Thursday, after which the organizations put out a joint statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The entertainment community appreciates being included in the dialogue around the Administration's efforts to confront the complex challenge of gun violence in America. This industry has a longstanding commitment to provide parents the tools necessary to make the right viewing decisions for their families. We welcome the opportunity to share that history and look forward to doing our part to seek meaningful solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any attempt to impose new restrictions on the media will face opposition. David Horowitz of the Media Coalition, which works for free expression for the industry, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/01/11/169172196/biden-meets-with-video-game-makers-to-discuss-gun-violence\">told National Public Radio\u003c/a> that the government has no role in tamping down the violence in movies, songs or video games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The discretion is left to the consumer to decide what he or she thinks is appropriate for him or herself or, in the case of a parent, for a child,\" he said. He noted the violence in such classic works of literature as the Iliad and even the Bible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court has taken a similar position, as when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/27/supreme-court-rules-california-cant-ban-violent-video-games-for-minors/\">it struck down a state law \u003c/a>sponsored by California Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, that would have restricted children's access to violent video games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaSalle himself thinks Hollywood will shrug off any attempt to stifle the mayhem on screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely nothing will happen,” he said. “For the MPAA to change its ratings will cost millions and millions of dollars. Fewer movies like 'Jack Reacher' would be made, or they would have to be made differently. Even if we organized, let’s say, and went to Washington and had a great meeting with everybody, we would not get what we wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meetings like the one Biden held on Thursday have taken place in the past, said LaSalle. Typically the studios invite the activists to Hollywood, introduce them to some stars, and promise to review their ratings system, but warn that changes will take a few months. The activists go home and trumpet their success, he said. Months later when the activists realize that nothing has changed, they are too embarrassed to admit their failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s LaSalle’s solution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d like to see prominent politicians take a stand, not only introducing gun control legislation but also calling for less violence in films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actual legislation would be too much – LaSalle doesn’t want to see the government get into the business of editing movies – but he thinks a firm suggestion might help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the office of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She has been the foremost advocate of gun control in the U.S. Senate, and I wanted to know if she had any plans to speak out on movie violence as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her spokesperson said she she’d call me back. I'll let you know if that happens.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But when I wrote the review, I said none of those things, which I considered to be too subjective and personal, and instead concentrated on objective aspects of the movie that I deemed deficient, and I gave it a middling-to-negative review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the events in that movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and suddenly my own writing about this film seemed to me limp and inadequate - no, flat-out pathetic. It's not that \"The Dark Knight Rises\" directly caused a maniac to start killing people in a movie theater; obviously, it didn't. But it did seem to me that the soul-crushing chaos of the film - ultimately reflected in what happened in Aurora - warranted a response that it never got.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Does this mean critics should pass moral judgment on films?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A critic should not end up saying ‘this film offended me,’” LaSalle told me. “Because to say films are good or bad to the extent they comport with my value system is to become useless as a critic. But just because you don’t want to do that doesn’t mean you can’t say that this movie is anti-life. To ignore that 'The Dark Knight Rises' is an ugly, nihilistic vision is not to sidestep a moral judgment, it’s to sidestep making something clear that’s essential to how that movie functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaSalle said that out of 300 to 350 emails, perhaps seven or eight have disagreed with his essay, which appeared in multiple newspapers around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many emails have said ‘you’re so brave,’ but the fact of the matter is that it wasn’t brave because everybody agreed with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaSalle said he’d like to see more pressure put on the Motion Picture Association of America, the trade association for the movie business that rates its own films. He said the association should use violence as a much more important criterion in imposing ratings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically he wants one act of violence in a movie to result in an R rating, just as sex triggers that rating now. “All I’m doing here is saying that guns should be considered as dangerous as nipples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaSalle seems to have scientific research on his side, with multiple studies correlating violence in the media to violence in real life. \"The evidence is now clear and convincing: media violence is 1 of the causal factors of real-life violence and aggression,\" the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded in \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/124/5/1495.full\">a 2009 policy statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise the International Society for Research on Aggression \u003ca href=\"http://www.israsociety.com/pdfs/Media%20Violence%20Commission%20final%20report.pdf\">concluded\u003c/a> that the rating system for movies and other media needs to be improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the Motion Picture Association for a reaction to LaSalle's suggestion, but the director of communications said it would have no comment. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84724\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Zero-Dark-Thirty-protester-Andrew-Stelzer.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-84724\" title=\"Zero Dark Thirty protester Andrew Stelzer\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Zero-Dark-Thirty-protester-Andrew-Stelzer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester says 'Zero Dark Thirty' gives a wrong impression of torture. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film \u003cem>Zero Dark Thirty, \u003c/em> about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including \u003ca href=\"http://oscar.go.com/nominees\" target=\"_blank\">Best Picture\u003c/a>. But the movie has also drawn a substantial amount of criticism, including from senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain, for promoting what they say is the idea that torture played a role in locating bin Laden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/glenn-greenwald-security-liberty\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Greenwald\u003c/a>, a columnist for The Guardian in the UK, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/mark-bowden\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Bowden\u003c/a>, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, debated the issue on KQED Public Radio's Forum program this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Edited transcript\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GLENN GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: The film begins with a harrowing audiotape of people trapped inside buildings on 9/11, and that obviously makes the viewer very emotionally distraught—-rightfully so—-and then immediately leads to 45 minutes or so of the film overwhelmingly dominated by the CIA torturing helpless victims. So right away it’s manipulative in the sense that it begins its history with 9/11, making you very angry about what happened, and then immediately showing CIA agents torturing people, making clear that that’s the emotional and intellectual justification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the real problem is that the film shows that the key piece of information that led to the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden was extracted from a detainee who, for the first 45 minutes of the film, was brutally tortured. He then gave off the key bit of information, which was the identity of Osama bin Laden’s courier, which led the CIA to be able to find bin Laden when he was sitting at a table eating with two CIA agents who had spent the first 45 minutes of the film torturing him, and they then threatened to return him to torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line right before he gives up the key piece of information is “you can tell me what I want to know, or I can hang you back up to the ceiling.” And he then immediately coughs up the name of the courier that led them to bin Laden. So the key message that huge numbers of people—writers, journalists, politicians—who’ve seen this film received, and was intended to be conveyed, is that torture played a critical role in enabling the finding of bin Laden. That would be bothersome even if it were true; the fact that it’s a complete fabrication is what makes this film so reckless and disturbing. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FORUM HOST MICHAEL KRASNY\u003c/strong>: What about the connection to the Central Intelligence Agency? In many respects, \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/zero-dark-thirty-cia-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\">your article\u003c/a> seems to point out that there was, if not complicity, the CIA essentially creating a jingoistic potential script that simply enhances their narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301080900\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the show\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/zero-dark-thirty-cia-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Glenn Greenwald)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/zero-dark-thirty-is-not-pro-torture/266759/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Zero Dark Thirty is Not Pro-Torture\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Mark Bowden)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/feinstein-mccain-levin-statement-zero-dark-thirty/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Feinstein, McCain, Levin letter to Sony\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: I think this is the critical point. The film has received a lot of controversial attention because of the issue of how it falsely shows torture as valuable. To me, the even more disturbing part is that the film was made by having the filmmakers meet continuously with the CIA at a time that the Obama administration was saying to courts and to media outlets and activist groups we cannot release anymore information about the bin Laden raid because it’s classified.The CIA was then passing non-public information—possibly classified information—to the filmmakers, and the entire film is told from the CIA’s perspective; the CIA agents are heroes, everyone in the film, with almost no exception, who’s Arab or Muslim are shown as being evil, menacing, threatening, terrorists. There’s no ambiguity or moral debate about torture, about what the United States’s role in the world is doing.Mr. Bowden’s colleague at The Atlantic, Peter Maass, said that the most disturbing part of the film is that it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/dont-trust-zero-dark-thirty/266253/\" target=\"_blank\">essentially government-embedded moviemaking\u003c/a>; it’s the CIA using the power of Hollywood to propagandize the citizenry to see the world as the CIA wants them to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: Mark Bowden had a different perspective He says this is Hollywood, that a lot of movies about the CIA in the post-Nixon era have been about evil and diabolical figures. That the fact of the matter is the CIA trips over a lot of things and doesn’t get the job done as far as getting to Abbottabad or getting on the trail of bin Laden for quite some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MARK BOWDEN\u003c/strong>: I think the film does accurately reflect a lot of the early failures of this process, and I think it makes a very clear point that, up until fairly late in the game, their efforts to find bin Laden were bearing no fruit whatsoever. In fact there’s a very strong scene right in the middle of the film where they get a visit to the embassy in Islamabad from a high-ranking CIA officer who upbraids the whole room full of people for failing, for not being able to get the job done. I’ve described some of the criticisms of this film as a willful misreading of it, and I think that would describe the version that Glenn has just given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: What about Glenn’s argument here that there is a kind of cartoon-like portrayal not only of Muslims, and the idea that a lot of the story came down from the CIA, because there were clearly -- and Sen. Feinstein and others have asked for this to be investigated -- there were things that were drawn in the movie that showed the CIA’s point of view, that they were really responsible for what happened in Abbottabad?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BOWDEN\u003c/strong>: Well I think that’s true, and I think what they set out to do was to tell the story of how the CIA found Osama bin Laden, and if there are heroes and bad guys in a film—I think it’s true of almost any Hollywood film—the heroes in this case are imperfect CIA agents who nevertheless succeed in the end, and the bad guys are Islamist terrorists who are depicted primarily in that role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think Glenn’s right; I mean, there’s not a lot of room in that piece of storytelling for presenting a broader picture of the Muslim world, but that’s the story that they told and I think they got it pretty right.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: And what about, Glenn Greenwald, the fact that the story does include torture? To make a script, to Hollywoodize it and put it in a certain timeframe and so forth, you have to compress things, you have to create characters sometimes that are one-dimensional and all that, but also you have to pretty much include torture in this because torture is part of the story...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: Sure. Nobody is bothered by the fact that torture was shown in the film. Torture did happen, it should have been shown in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the problem is is that the way in which it was shown is a false history. This is what \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/torture-in-kathryn-bigelows-zero-dark-thirty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Mayer in The New Yorker\u003c/a> said, who is probably the foremost journalistic expert on the Bush torture program. She said what is so unsettling about Dark Thirty is not that it tells this difficult history, but rather that it distorts it. And then she goes on to document in detail all the ways in which the claims this movie advances about the torture program are historically and demonstrably false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has been the criticism from people like \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-gibney/zero-dark-thirty-torture_b_2345589.html\" target=\"_blank\">filmmaker Alex Gibney\u003c/a>, who won an Oscar for his documentary about the torture program; national security reporters from around the country; the Senators you mentioned who have access to the top secret information about the program. Nobody contests that torture should not have been included in this film—it was part of the history, there were people like Mr. Bowden and others who advocated and supported that program…it’s a part of history, it should be shown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that it is completely fictitious in convincing huge numbers of people that torture was a key ingredient in enabling an event that huge numbers of Americans consider to be one of the greatest events in American history, which is the killing of Osama bin Laden, that will convince people to accept Mr. Bowden’s view that torture is sometimes productive and that it’s necessary and morally justifiable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: What about the 6,000 page report that came out of the CIA's detention and interrogation program that confirms that the Bush/Cheney administration's program post-9/11 that embraced torture did not yield critical intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: Yeah the \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/feinstein-mccain-levin-statement-zero-dark-thirty/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> is incredibly clear – I encourage everyone to read it, it’s an extraordinary letter to Sony – making clear that Zero Dark Thirty is factually inaccurate, and we believe you have an obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts but rather part of the film’s fictional narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the problem here -- and the senators cite this -- is that the director of the film, Kathryn Bigelow, and the screenwriter Mark Boal have been running around the country praising themselves for making not only a film but an act of journalism. Mark Boal said as a reporter I wanted to approach this topic as a journalist. The very first screen of the iflm after the audiotapes of 9/11 says this is based on first-hand accounts of actual events. So the film makes all kinds of journalistc claims to historical accuracy, but it’s actually a pile of falsehoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: How do you respond to that Mark Bowden?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BOWDEN\u003c/strong>: As I \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/zero-dark-thirty-is-not-pro-torture/266759/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in the Atlantic,\u003c/a> the film does fictionalize the whole process of the hunt for bin Laden and like many Hollywood stories based on a true story it departs in a lot of particular instances from the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I do think that the allegations that torture played no role in finding Osama bin Laden are wrong. I think the record shows – and I wrote a book on the subject – that the earliest mentions of Ahmed from Kuwait, the courier who eventually led us to bin Laden, came from some of the most notorious instances of coercive interrogation that we know about.The letter that Glenn refers to from Dianne Feinstein and others plays a kind of subtle, lawyerly game with the facts, but I don’t’ think there is much dispute over the facts at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there is a narrative that principled opponents of torture prefer but I don’t think that’s accurate.\n\n\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84724\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Zero-Dark-Thirty-protester-Andrew-Stelzer.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-84724\" title=\"Zero Dark Thirty protester Andrew Stelzer\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Zero-Dark-Thirty-protester-Andrew-Stelzer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester says 'Zero Dark Thirty' gives a wrong impression of torture. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film \u003cem>Zero Dark Thirty, \u003c/em> about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including \u003ca href=\"http://oscar.go.com/nominees\" target=\"_blank\">Best Picture\u003c/a>. But the movie has also drawn a substantial amount of criticism, including from senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain, for promoting what they say is the idea that torture played a role in locating bin Laden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/glenn-greenwald-security-liberty\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Greenwald\u003c/a>, a columnist for The Guardian in the UK, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/mark-bowden\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Bowden\u003c/a>, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, debated the issue on KQED Public Radio's Forum program this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Edited transcript\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GLENN GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: The film begins with a harrowing audiotape of people trapped inside buildings on 9/11, and that obviously makes the viewer very emotionally distraught—-rightfully so—-and then immediately leads to 45 minutes or so of the film overwhelmingly dominated by the CIA torturing helpless victims. So right away it’s manipulative in the sense that it begins its history with 9/11, making you very angry about what happened, and then immediately showing CIA agents torturing people, making clear that that’s the emotional and intellectual justification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the real problem is that the film shows that the key piece of information that led to the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden was extracted from a detainee who, for the first 45 minutes of the film, was brutally tortured. He then gave off the key bit of information, which was the identity of Osama bin Laden’s courier, which led the CIA to be able to find bin Laden when he was sitting at a table eating with two CIA agents who had spent the first 45 minutes of the film torturing him, and they then threatened to return him to torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line right before he gives up the key piece of information is “you can tell me what I want to know, or I can hang you back up to the ceiling.” And he then immediately coughs up the name of the courier that led them to bin Laden. So the key message that huge numbers of people—writers, journalists, politicians—who’ve seen this film received, and was intended to be conveyed, is that torture played a critical role in enabling the finding of bin Laden. That would be bothersome even if it were true; the fact that it’s a complete fabrication is what makes this film so reckless and disturbing. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FORUM HOST MICHAEL KRASNY\u003c/strong>: What about the connection to the Central Intelligence Agency? In many respects, \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/zero-dark-thirty-cia-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\">your article\u003c/a> seems to point out that there was, if not complicity, the CIA essentially creating a jingoistic potential script that simply enhances their narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301080900\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the show\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/zero-dark-thirty-cia-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Glenn Greenwald)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/zero-dark-thirty-is-not-pro-torture/266759/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Zero Dark Thirty is Not Pro-Torture\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Mark Bowden)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/feinstein-mccain-levin-statement-zero-dark-thirty/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Feinstein, McCain, Levin letter to Sony\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: I think this is the critical point. The film has received a lot of controversial attention because of the issue of how it falsely shows torture as valuable. To me, the even more disturbing part is that the film was made by having the filmmakers meet continuously with the CIA at a time that the Obama administration was saying to courts and to media outlets and activist groups we cannot release anymore information about the bin Laden raid because it’s classified.The CIA was then passing non-public information—possibly classified information—to the filmmakers, and the entire film is told from the CIA’s perspective; the CIA agents are heroes, everyone in the film, with almost no exception, who’s Arab or Muslim are shown as being evil, menacing, threatening, terrorists. There’s no ambiguity or moral debate about torture, about what the United States’s role in the world is doing.Mr. Bowden’s colleague at The Atlantic, Peter Maass, said that the most disturbing part of the film is that it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/dont-trust-zero-dark-thirty/266253/\" target=\"_blank\">essentially government-embedded moviemaking\u003c/a>; it’s the CIA using the power of Hollywood to propagandize the citizenry to see the world as the CIA wants them to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: Mark Bowden had a different perspective He says this is Hollywood, that a lot of movies about the CIA in the post-Nixon era have been about evil and diabolical figures. That the fact of the matter is the CIA trips over a lot of things and doesn’t get the job done as far as getting to Abbottabad or getting on the trail of bin Laden for quite some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MARK BOWDEN\u003c/strong>: I think the film does accurately reflect a lot of the early failures of this process, and I think it makes a very clear point that, up until fairly late in the game, their efforts to find bin Laden were bearing no fruit whatsoever. In fact there’s a very strong scene right in the middle of the film where they get a visit to the embassy in Islamabad from a high-ranking CIA officer who upbraids the whole room full of people for failing, for not being able to get the job done. I’ve described some of the criticisms of this film as a willful misreading of it, and I think that would describe the version that Glenn has just given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: What about Glenn’s argument here that there is a kind of cartoon-like portrayal not only of Muslims, and the idea that a lot of the story came down from the CIA, because there were clearly -- and Sen. Feinstein and others have asked for this to be investigated -- there were things that were drawn in the movie that showed the CIA’s point of view, that they were really responsible for what happened in Abbottabad?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BOWDEN\u003c/strong>: Well I think that’s true, and I think what they set out to do was to tell the story of how the CIA found Osama bin Laden, and if there are heroes and bad guys in a film—I think it’s true of almost any Hollywood film—the heroes in this case are imperfect CIA agents who nevertheless succeed in the end, and the bad guys are Islamist terrorists who are depicted primarily in that role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think Glenn’s right; I mean, there’s not a lot of room in that piece of storytelling for presenting a broader picture of the Muslim world, but that’s the story that they told and I think they got it pretty right.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: And what about, Glenn Greenwald, the fact that the story does include torture? To make a script, to Hollywoodize it and put it in a certain timeframe and so forth, you have to compress things, you have to create characters sometimes that are one-dimensional and all that, but also you have to pretty much include torture in this because torture is part of the story...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: Sure. Nobody is bothered by the fact that torture was shown in the film. Torture did happen, it should have been shown in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the problem is is that the way in which it was shown is a false history. This is what \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/torture-in-kathryn-bigelows-zero-dark-thirty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Mayer in The New Yorker\u003c/a> said, who is probably the foremost journalistic expert on the Bush torture program. She said what is so unsettling about Dark Thirty is not that it tells this difficult history, but rather that it distorts it. And then she goes on to document in detail all the ways in which the claims this movie advances about the torture program are historically and demonstrably false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has been the criticism from people like \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-gibney/zero-dark-thirty-torture_b_2345589.html\" target=\"_blank\">filmmaker Alex Gibney\u003c/a>, who won an Oscar for his documentary about the torture program; national security reporters from around the country; the Senators you mentioned who have access to the top secret information about the program. Nobody contests that torture should not have been included in this film—it was part of the history, there were people like Mr. Bowden and others who advocated and supported that program…it’s a part of history, it should be shown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that it is completely fictitious in convincing huge numbers of people that torture was a key ingredient in enabling an event that huge numbers of Americans consider to be one of the greatest events in American history, which is the killing of Osama bin Laden, that will convince people to accept Mr. Bowden’s view that torture is sometimes productive and that it’s necessary and morally justifiable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: What about the 6,000 page report that came out of the CIA's detention and interrogation program that confirms that the Bush/Cheney administration's program post-9/11 that embraced torture did not yield critical intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GREENWALD\u003c/strong>: Yeah the \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/feinstein-mccain-levin-statement-zero-dark-thirty/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> is incredibly clear – I encourage everyone to read it, it’s an extraordinary letter to Sony – making clear that Zero Dark Thirty is factually inaccurate, and we believe you have an obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts but rather part of the film’s fictional narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the problem here -- and the senators cite this -- is that the director of the film, Kathryn Bigelow, and the screenwriter Mark Boal have been running around the country praising themselves for making not only a film but an act of journalism. Mark Boal said as a reporter I wanted to approach this topic as a journalist. The very first screen of the iflm after the audiotapes of 9/11 says this is based on first-hand accounts of actual events. So the film makes all kinds of journalistc claims to historical accuracy, but it’s actually a pile of falsehoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: How do you respond to that Mark Bowden?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BOWDEN\u003c/strong>: As I \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/zero-dark-thirty-is-not-pro-torture/266759/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in the Atlantic,\u003c/a> the film does fictionalize the whole process of the hunt for bin Laden and like many Hollywood stories based on a true story it departs in a lot of particular instances from the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I do think that the allegations that torture played no role in finding Osama bin Laden are wrong. 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The key evidence - the identity of bin Laden's courier - is revealed only after a detainee is brutally and repeatedly abused.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>According to Feinstein's \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=0d4e72c7-361a-4271-922f-6e2ccaa3f609\">media release\u003c/a>, it just didn't happen that way:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Senate Intelligence Committee’s recently-adopted Study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation program concluded that the CIA did not first learn about the existence of the bin Laden courier from CIA detainees subjected to coercive interrogation techniques and that the CIA detainee who provided the most accurate information about the courier provided the information prior to being subjected to coercive interrogation techniques.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Senate Armed Service Committee Ranking Member John McCain (R-Ariz.) are asking the CIA to to document how the agency communicated with the filmmakers and its own employees about the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Emeryville Friday afternoon, a man dressed in an orange jumpsuit and a black hood over his head was chained to a sign reading\"‘Don’t Buy CIA Lies!” Meanwhile half a dozen people handed out fliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see it, realize that it’s full of lies.” protester Mary Ann Thomas told KQED's Andrew Stelzer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on his way in to see the film, Nathan Jongewaard said he wasn't concerned. “I think that audiences are intelligent enough to understand that a Hollywood movie is not gonna depict an absolute truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy is particularly lively because the filmmakers have made unusual claims about its authenticity. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/12/17/121217ta_talk_filkins\">interview with The New Yorker magazine\u003c/a>, director Kathryn Bigelow, who was born in San Carlos and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute, said she was striving for realism. \"What we were attempting is almost a journalistic approach to film,\" she reportedly said. The film opens with the words \"based on first-hand accounts of actual events.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When The New Yorker writer challenged her about the information leading to the courier, however, Bigelow said, \"It’s a movie, not a documentary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this video, two actors from the film, Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke, argue that the film does not depict torture as helpful in the bin Laden hunt, notably because the captive discloses the courier's identity during a meal rather than while being tortured:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/hDHLzt_MZ84?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics agree, including Andrew Sullivan \u003ca href=\"http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/12/the-torture-narrative.html\">writing in the Daily Beast\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...the movie is not an apology for torture, as so many have said, and as I have worried about. It is an exposure of torture. It removes any doubt that war criminals ran this country for seven years and remain at large, while they scapegoated the grunts at Abu Ghraib who were, yes, merely following their superior's own orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why include the torture at all? The breakthroughs to finding bin Laden in the movie come from traditional interrogation and intelligence. I think it reveals the core truth behind Cheney's armchair warrior mindset. The torture was not for intelligence (and it provided nothing reliable as well as countless leads that were dead ends). It was for revenge.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's been an eventful year in the Bay Area. There were big protests, incredible views, intriguing wildlife, a World Series title, environmental disasters and many touching moments in the diverse communities that call this place home. Here are some of our favorite images from 2012...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84573\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>March saw a fair amount of rain. Berkeley’s creeks ran high and the early spring skyscapes were often beautiful to behold. (Joe Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Prop8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84574\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104Prop8\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Prop8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 7 upheld Judge Vaughn Walker's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/07/prop-8-appeals-court-decision/\">ruling that invalidated Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California's same-sex marriage ban. The federal appeals court declared the ban to be unconstitutional, paving the way for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown on the voter-approved law. (Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OwlChick.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84578\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104OwlChick\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OwlChick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>In April, a Great Horned Owl \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/04/26/berkeley-owl-chick-will-soon-branch-out-says-expert/\">made its nest in the crotch of a Eucalyptus tree\u003c/a> on Berkeley’s Claremont Canyon fire trail. The arrival of a chick was a source of fascination for many bird-loving hikers and photographers. (Lee Aurich/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MayDay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84582\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104MayDay\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MayDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/01/bay-area-may-day-protests/\">Protesters turned out in force on May Day in the Bay Area\u003c/a>. The day began with protests at ferry terminals throughout the Bay as part of a labor action by workers in a dispute over health care. A planned protest aimed at shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge was called off. In Oakland, 3-5,000 protesters skirmished with police, who used tear gas. In San Francisco, protesters marched and took over a building at 888 Turk. (Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84583\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=101468\">Occupy Bay Area, an exhibition of \"visual culture\" from Occupy encampments\u003c/a> around the Bay Area. Though the show made perfect sense to artists and other cultural producers, it was considered a bold move to some who questioned whether the exhibition created a kind of \"instant history.\" (Artwork by Eric Drooker; courtesy of the artist and YBCA)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84594\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Watching the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/21/berkeleyans-come-out-in-force-to-view-eclipse-of-the-sun/\">partial eclipse of the sun\u003c/a> on the afternoon of Sunday, May 20 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. (Elazar Sontag/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Pika.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84584\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104Pika\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Pika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The American pika is a squeaky little animal that lives at high elevations in mountains in the West. It could one day have a huge \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/tag/pika/\" target=\"_blank\">influence on the battle over climate change\u003c/a>. And a \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/counting-climate-challenged-pikas/\">new program is enlisting students to help scientists\u003c/a> learn more about the critters. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104quarry.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84588\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104quarry\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104quarry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/05/how-silicon-valley-wants-to-pay-for-flood-protection/\">Sea level rise could one day inundate\u003c/a> industrial, commercial and residential areas all along the Bay, from this rock quarry in the North Bay to companies in Silicon Valley and neighborhoods in San Jose. (Molly Samuel/KQED/aerial support from LightHawk)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104redwoods.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84591\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104redwoods\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104redwoods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The State Parks Department threatened to close 70 parks following budget cuts. Anderson Valley residents said Hendy Woods is an important part of their economy and gathered at \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203060850/b\">Occupy Hendy Woods\u003c/a>\" to discuss how to keep the park open. In July, it was revealed that the department was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/\" target=\"_blank\">sitting on a $54 million surplus\u003c/a>. In the end, no parks were closed in 2012. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84593\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Berkeleyans had front row seats to a\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/08/06/chevron-officials-want-east-bay-residents-including-berkeleyans-to-stay-indoors/\"> fire that erupted at the Chevron refinery in Richmond\u003c/a> on Aug. 6. More than 80 firefighters spent five hours battling the blaze, which prompted shelter-in-place orders for an estimated 160,000 local residents. (Jef Poskanzer/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84596\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>On Sept. 21 Berkeleyans in the thousands turned out to see the space shuttle Endeavour, carried on a specially adapted NASA 747, fly just over the city’s rooftops and the Bay. Many gathered at vista points in the hills, including Grizzly Peak Drive, Inspiration Point, and the Lawrence Hall of Science, while others looked open-mouthed from sidewalks, school playgrounds and the bleachers at Berkeley High. (Alan Tobey/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84590\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Frank and Leticia Romo's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/in-sergio-romos-small-hometown-no-1-crop-is-pro-baseball-players/\">shrine to their son Sergio's baseball career\u003c/a> in his childhood bedroom in Brawley, California. About 25,000 people live in this farm town, out in the desert scrubland. There's no big college, no stadium, but the town has sent a bumper crop of 21 players to the major and minor leagues. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84592\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104vetday\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Six-year-old Aubrey Bown places a red carnation to honor her uncle, James Suh, a U.S. Navy SEAL who was shot down in Korangal Valley, Afghanistan. \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2012/11/12/silicon-valley-honors-veterans-photos/\">Cupertino hosted the annual Veterans Day ceremony\u003c/a> at Memorial Park. (Anna Li/\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84595\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Jeff Tedford, head coach of the Cal Golden Bears football team since 2002, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/11/20/cal-football-coach-jeff-tedford-sacked-after-3-9-season/\">fired on Nov. 20 after a 3-9 season\u003c/a> and a combined 15-22 record over the last three years. Tedford's total pay in 2011 was almost $2.9 million. (Joe Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84589\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026homelessness\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>A homeless man amid his belongings in the alleyway where he lives in Berkeley. (Anna Vignet /\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo is part of a photo essay on homelessness entitled \"Architecture of Homelessness.\" The photographer's statement on the project is included below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiatives to help San Francisco’s homeless find shelter, jobs or medical treatment remain controversial. One recent law, the “sit-lie” ordinance, made it illegal to sit or lie down on city sidewalks. Some homeless people say this law takes away their right to dwell freely — essentially the right to be alive. How does one build a place of one’s own in a city where other opportunities are not available? We all have the need to create a sense of home, even in extreme circumstances. In these photos, the lines between public and private, urban and domestic, blur. They reveal the architecture of homelessness, and contribute to the understanding of a displaced people who make their own spaces.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's been an eventful year in the Bay Area. There were big protests, incredible views, intriguing wildlife, a World Series title, environmental disasters and many touching moments in the diverse communities that call this place home. Here are some of our favorite images from 2012...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84573\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>March saw a fair amount of rain. Berkeley’s creeks ran high and the early spring skyscapes were often beautiful to behold. (Joe Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Prop8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84574\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104Prop8\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Prop8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 7 upheld Judge Vaughn Walker's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/07/prop-8-appeals-court-decision/\">ruling that invalidated Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California's same-sex marriage ban. The federal appeals court declared the ban to be unconstitutional, paving the way for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown on the voter-approved law. (Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OwlChick.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84578\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104OwlChick\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OwlChick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>In April, a Great Horned Owl \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/04/26/berkeley-owl-chick-will-soon-branch-out-says-expert/\">made its nest in the crotch of a Eucalyptus tree\u003c/a> on Berkeley’s Claremont Canyon fire trail. The arrival of a chick was a source of fascination for many bird-loving hikers and photographers. (Lee Aurich/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MayDay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84582\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104MayDay\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MayDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/01/bay-area-may-day-protests/\">Protesters turned out in force on May Day in the Bay Area\u003c/a>. The day began with protests at ferry terminals throughout the Bay as part of a labor action by workers in a dispute over health care. A planned protest aimed at shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge was called off. In Oakland, 3-5,000 protesters skirmished with police, who used tear gas. In San Francisco, protesters marched and took over a building at 888 Turk. (Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84583\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=101468\">Occupy Bay Area, an exhibition of \"visual culture\" from Occupy encampments\u003c/a> around the Bay Area. Though the show made perfect sense to artists and other cultural producers, it was considered a bold move to some who questioned whether the exhibition created a kind of \"instant history.\" (Artwork by Eric Drooker; courtesy of the artist and YBCA)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84594\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Watching the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/21/berkeleyans-come-out-in-force-to-view-eclipse-of-the-sun/\">partial eclipse of the sun\u003c/a> on the afternoon of Sunday, May 20 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. (Elazar Sontag/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Pika.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84584\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104Pika\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Pika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The American pika is a squeaky little animal that lives at high elevations in mountains in the West. It could one day have a huge \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/tag/pika/\" target=\"_blank\">influence on the battle over climate change\u003c/a>. And a \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/counting-climate-challenged-pikas/\">new program is enlisting students to help scientists\u003c/a> learn more about the critters. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104quarry.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84588\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104quarry\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104quarry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/05/how-silicon-valley-wants-to-pay-for-flood-protection/\">Sea level rise could one day inundate\u003c/a> industrial, commercial and residential areas all along the Bay, from this rock quarry in the North Bay to companies in Silicon Valley and neighborhoods in San Jose. (Molly Samuel/KQED/aerial support from LightHawk)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104redwoods.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84591\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104redwoods\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104redwoods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The State Parks Department threatened to close 70 parks following budget cuts. Anderson Valley residents said Hendy Woods is an important part of their economy and gathered at \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203060850/b\">Occupy Hendy Woods\u003c/a>\" to discuss how to keep the park open. In July, it was revealed that the department was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/\" target=\"_blank\">sitting on a $54 million surplus\u003c/a>. In the end, no parks were closed in 2012. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84593\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Berkeleyans had front row seats to a\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/08/06/chevron-officials-want-east-bay-residents-including-berkeleyans-to-stay-indoors/\"> fire that erupted at the Chevron refinery in Richmond\u003c/a> on Aug. 6. More than 80 firefighters spent five hours battling the blaze, which prompted shelter-in-place orders for an estimated 160,000 local residents. (Jef Poskanzer/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84596\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>On Sept. 21 Berkeleyans in the thousands turned out to see the space shuttle Endeavour, carried on a specially adapted NASA 747, fly just over the city’s rooftops and the Bay. Many gathered at vista points in the hills, including Grizzly Peak Drive, Inspiration Point, and the Lawrence Hall of Science, while others looked open-mouthed from sidewalks, school playgrounds and the bleachers at Berkeley High. (Alan Tobey/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84590\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Frank and Leticia Romo's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/in-sergio-romos-small-hometown-no-1-crop-is-pro-baseball-players/\">shrine to their son Sergio's baseball career\u003c/a> in his childhood bedroom in Brawley, California. About 25,000 people live in this farm town, out in the desert scrubland. There's no big college, no stadium, but the town has sent a bumper crop of 21 players to the major and minor leagues. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84592\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104vetday\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Six-year-old Aubrey Bown places a red carnation to honor her uncle, James Suh, a U.S. Navy SEAL who was shot down in Korangal Valley, Afghanistan. \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2012/11/12/silicon-valley-honors-veterans-photos/\">Cupertino hosted the annual Veterans Day ceremony\u003c/a> at Memorial Park. (Anna Li/\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84595\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Jeff Tedford, head coach of the Cal Golden Bears football team since 2002, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/11/20/cal-football-coach-jeff-tedford-sacked-after-3-9-season/\">fired on Nov. 20 after a 3-9 season\u003c/a> and a combined 15-22 record over the last three years. Tedford's total pay in 2011 was almost $2.9 million. (Joe Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84589\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026homelessness\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>A homeless man amid his belongings in the alleyway where he lives in Berkeley. (Anna Vignet /\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo is part of a photo essay on homelessness entitled \"Architecture of Homelessness.\" The photographer's statement on the project is included below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiatives to help San Francisco’s homeless find shelter, jobs or medical treatment remain controversial. 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"title": "Film Critic David Thomson on How 'Star Wars' Embraces SF Ethos",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83971\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Vertigo_1958_trailer_embrace.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83971\" title=\"Vertigo_1958_trailer_embrace\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Vertigo_1958_trailer_embrace-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Novak and James Stewart in \"Vertigo\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The eminent film critic and resident San Franciscan \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212261000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Thomson was a guest on KQED Public Radio’s Forum show today\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, talking about his latest book, \u003ca href=\"http://us.macmillan.com/thebigscreen/DavidThomson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and other explorations in cinephilia. 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One particularly interesting thing he said: he thinks \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> is in some way emblematic of the city’s ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript…\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Though the Star Wars films don’t use San Francisco, in a way they are about the ethos of the city. They’re about the idea that young people can start making films in a different way, so you don’t have to go Hollywood.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n—\u003cstrong>David Thomson\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what films stand out to you as particularly evocative of San Francisco and the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DAVID THOMSON\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Haunted-by-Hitchcock-s-Vertigo-3621253.php\">\u003cem>Vertigo\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is the obvious answer. It’s a film that not only uses San Francisco as its background, but it sort of understands the way in which San Francisco and its light can also be a dreamy, sinister place. Von Stroheim’s \u003cem>Greed\u003c/em> has amazing shots of Polk Street. Everyone in San Francisco loves the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JgMAHVeg0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">car chase in \u003cem>Bullitt\u003c/em>\u003c/a> not just for the chase but because it’s put together using shots on streets that don’t match. Then there’s the \u003cem>Dirty Harry\u003c/em> movies. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvhoeL3Vv-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Lady From Shanghai\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has quite a lot of stuff in San Franciso. \u003cem>Point Blank\u003c/em> uses Alcatraz and Fort Point very well. \u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How about films that speak to San Francisco’s culture or character?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>THOMSON\u003c/strong>: Wayne Wang made a couple of early films, \u003cem>Dim Sum\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Chan is Missing\u003c/em>, which are very good on the Chinatown aspects of the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfVZWgd8aE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petulia\u003c/a> is quite good on the chaos — or liberation — of the 60s. The Rolling Stones documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CG1rbUdHKg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gimme Shelter\u003c/a> — filmed in Altamont — is interesting in that era too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhRsZ56b4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Conversation\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is a great San Francisco film. It’s a noir film about people being bugged and spied on and surveilled; it’s a very prescient film in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A film like \u003cem>Milk\u003c/em> is very interesting and obviously there have been a lot of important gay films, many of them documentaries. And Woody Allen’s got his San Francisco film coming out. He’s become a sort of movie tourist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the whole ethos of the George Lucas enterprise. Lucas and Coppola both really wanted to get away from LA because they thought there was a more supportive atmosphere up here. So though the \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> films don’t use San Francisco, in a way they are about the ethos of the city. They’re about the idea that young people can start making films in a different way so you don’t have to go Hollywood, You can stay at home in San Francisco with its greater liberalism and range of attitudes, so that you can be freer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Kaufman’s \u003cem>The Right Stuff\u003c/em> is also not about San Francisco, but the fact of the matter is that almost all of it was filmed in San Francisco and it’s the fruit of an attitude that says you can make a fllm in your home town. He’s a great lover and exponent of the city. His \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFXIPdseQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is a film that uses San Francisco most directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212261000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to the complete Forum segment\u003c/a> with David Thomson here\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you can \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Screen-Story-Movies/dp/0374191891/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/180-2617453-7859041#reader_0374191891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read some of Thomson’s \u003cem>The Big Screen\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at Amazon.com.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For a child like me growing up in the upper Midwest, singing “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” was much like saying “I’m dreaming of a peanut butter sandwich in my lunchbox.” You might welcome it, but whether you did or not you were pretty certain that nine times out of ten that’s what you were going to get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the verse isn’t heard very often, and when it is it’s frequently performed by someone steeped in twentieth-century popular song. Someone like \u003ca href=\"http://arnefogel.com/index.php/latest-news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Fogel\u003c/a>, whom I interviewed recently for \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201212211630/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story I did about “White Christmas” for The California Report\u003c/a>. Fogel’s a singer and broadcaster; he’s also something of an expert on Bing Crosby, and he’s hosting a special about the crooner’s Christmas recordings for Sirius XM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fogel says Crosby didn’t sing the verse when he debuted “White Christmas” in the movie \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034862/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holiday Inn\u003c/a> in 1942, and he also didn’t sing it in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047673/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1954 film named after the song\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crosby didn’t sing the verse until a TV show in the late 1960s, which I remember watching,” Fogel says. “And he starts singing, ‘The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway…’, and I didn’t know what the heck he was singing about. This is Christmastime, why is he singing about these palm trees? Then he suddenly goes into White Christmas, and I thought, that’s interesting, I never heard that before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s that 1968 performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1kITD4X6U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slate music critic Jody Rosen wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jody-rosen/white-christmas/#review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book about White Christmas\u003c/a> in 2002. His research indicates that Irving Berlin may have been working on the song as early as 1938, and with a very different concept in mind. “It is difficult to imagine the ‘White Christmas’ we know today as a showstopper in a revue filled with dog tricks and pratfalls,” Rosen writes, but that’s where Berlin was going with it: a satire on Hollywood types lolling around a pool, pretending to a nostalgia they didn’t really feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the cynical mood that prevailed in 1938 was gone by 1942, when the song was heard by GIs getting ready to ship out and the families whom they were leaving behind. Arne Fogel says, “All that context of ‘the sun is shining here in Beverly Hills’ has absolutely no resonance for them. (For the GIs) the song has meaning, because here I am, fighting this war for our way of life, and I wish I was back home the way it was when I was a kid. That’s why the song really took off. Because it became not just a Christmas carol, it became an American anthem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cohesion.asu.edu/?fellow=gregory-rodriguez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gregory Rodriguez\u003c/a> has a modern take on the dislocation implicit in “White Christmas.” Rodriguez is the founding director for the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He wrote about \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/19/opinion/la-oe-rodriguez-xmas-20111219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the song for the Los Angeles Times last year\u003c/a>. Whereas the original audience for “White Christmas” was longing from a European battlefield for “the ones they used to know,” Rodriguez points out that today’s wistful listener may be from Sunnyvale, recalling those snows of yesteryear from a cubicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American story is a story of migration, and the California story is the American story on steroids,” he says. “It’s the flip side of this great triumphant story of movement, and particularly in California, I think, it speaks to people who may be missing people back home. I think the song really speaks to that tension, but the first bars seem to land on the side of ‘I’m happy that I moved away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t feel the song only offers a choice between Beverly Hills and Everytown, USA. After the story aired on The California Report, listener Laura Turiano wrote to say she used to perform “White Christmas” with an East Bay vocal group. “That first verse seemed way too specific even for us to sing here,” she wrote. So they changed the lyrics to…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The sun is shining\u003cbr>\nThe grass is green\u003cbr>\nThe redwoods and oak trees sway\u003cbr>\nThere’s never been such a day,\u003cbr>\nHere in Oakland, CA\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Someone like \u003ca href=\"http://arnefogel.com/index.php/latest-news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Fogel\u003c/a>, whom I interviewed recently for \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201212211630/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story I did about “White Christmas” for The California Report\u003c/a>. Fogel’s a singer and broadcaster; he’s also something of an expert on Bing Crosby, and he’s hosting a special about the crooner’s Christmas recordings for Sirius XM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fogel says Crosby didn’t sing the verse when he debuted “White Christmas” in the movie \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034862/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holiday Inn\u003c/a> in 1942, and he also didn’t sing it in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047673/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1954 film named after the song\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crosby didn’t sing the verse until a TV show in the late 1960s, which I remember watching,” Fogel says. “And he starts singing, ‘The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway…’, and I didn’t know what the heck he was singing about. This is Christmastime, why is he singing about these palm trees? Then he suddenly goes into White Christmas, and I thought, that’s interesting, I never heard that before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s that 1968 performance.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Hr1kITD4X6U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Hr1kITD4X6U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Slate music critic Jody Rosen wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jody-rosen/white-christmas/#review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book about White Christmas\u003c/a> in 2002. His research indicates that Irving Berlin may have been working on the song as early as 1938, and with a very different concept in mind. “It is difficult to imagine the ‘White Christmas’ we know today as a showstopper in a revue filled with dog tricks and pratfalls,” Rosen writes, but that’s where Berlin was going with it: a satire on Hollywood types lolling around a pool, pretending to a nostalgia they didn’t really feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the cynical mood that prevailed in 1938 was gone by 1942, when the song was heard by GIs getting ready to ship out and the families whom they were leaving behind. Arne Fogel says, “All that context of ‘the sun is shining here in Beverly Hills’ has absolutely no resonance for them. (For the GIs) the song has meaning, because here I am, fighting this war for our way of life, and I wish I was back home the way it was when I was a kid. That’s why the song really took off. Because it became not just a Christmas carol, it became an American anthem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cohesion.asu.edu/?fellow=gregory-rodriguez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gregory Rodriguez\u003c/a> has a modern take on the dislocation implicit in “White Christmas.” Rodriguez is the founding director for the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He wrote about \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/19/opinion/la-oe-rodriguez-xmas-20111219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the song for the Los Angeles Times last year\u003c/a>. Whereas the original audience for “White Christmas” was longing from a European battlefield for “the ones they used to know,” Rodriguez points out that today’s wistful listener may be from Sunnyvale, recalling those snows of yesteryear from a cubicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American story is a story of migration, and the California story is the American story on steroids,” he says. “It’s the flip side of this great triumphant story of movement, and particularly in California, I think, it speaks to people who may be missing people back home. I think the song really speaks to that tension, but the first bars seem to land on the side of ‘I’m happy that I moved away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t feel the song only offers a choice between Beverly Hills and Everytown, USA. After the story aired on The California Report, listener Laura Turiano wrote to say she used to perform “White Christmas” with an East Bay vocal group. “That first verse seemed way too specific even for us to sing here,” she wrote. So they changed the lyrics to…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The sun is shining\u003cbr>\nThe grass is green\u003cbr>\nThe redwoods and oak trees sway\u003cbr>\nThere’s never been such a day,\u003cbr>\nHere in Oakland, CA\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/19/interview-instagram-superstar-richard-koci-herandez-on-terms-of-service-controversy/#interview\">\u003cstrong>Interview with Richard Koci Hernandez\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/\">CNET\u003c/a> and the New York Times' \u003ca href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/what-instagrams-new-terms-of-service-mean-for-you/\">Bits blog\u003c/a>, among others, put up posts on the practical implications of that language, helping to galvanize the resulting hue and cry that forced Instagram to issue a \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening\">blog post\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> backing away from the changes. Written by co-founder Kevin Systrom, the post was titled \"Thank you, and we're listening.\" Systrom said Instagram has no plans to utilize user photos in ads and does not claim ownership rights over them. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extracts from the post:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Advertising on Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our intention in updating the terms was to communicate that we’d like to experiment with innovative advertising that feels appropriate on Instagram. Instead it was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to others without any compensation. This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing. To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos. We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement. We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ownership Rights\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instagram users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos. Nothing about this has changed. We respect that there are creative artists and hobbyists alike that pour their heart into creating beautiful photos, and we respect that your photos are your photos. Period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Privacy Settings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing has changed about the control you have over who can see your photos. If you set your photos to private, Instagram only shares your photos with the people you’ve approved to follow you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One of the most prominent Instagram users to publicly rebel yesterday was \u003ca href=\"http://richardkocihernandez.com/\">Richard Koci Hernandez\u003c/a>. 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I see myself as a 'cautious optimist,' so I have my fingers crossed that they, Instagram, will listen to the voice of the community and reverse the new terms of service, but I'm not holding my breath. I don't feel like debating the terms of service or being too nostalgic about the old days of Instagram, I feel that it's much better just to take our work and more importantly friendship and conversation to another place that respects our rights and ownership as creators. Let's move the party to a new location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, I'll be posting any new photographs on Flickr user name Koci Hernandez , Starmatic and EyeEm user Koci. 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