Pat Arnow's Clips

In a week in June when 15 GIs were killed in Iraq, the war pictures in the New York Times featured dazed Iraqis after a suicide bombing, a Marine patrolling, the twisted remains of a vehicle, wounded children, a civilian casualty in a morgue. No photographs featured American casualties--a typical absence in U.S. coverage of the war....

The images of war that appear today offer a marked contrast to the pictures of the dead and wounded from the Vietnam War, whose media coverage is credited with spurring protests through graphic images...

“. . . A retired truck driver, Carl Porter became inspired to handle snakes after he saw the practice at a church service. 'I seen the Lord move on them. I wanted the Lord to move on me, and He did--told me to handle the serpent.' . . . ”

“The problem wasn't that performer Ed Haggard took off his clothes during his one-person show, a section he called 'I'm too white,' and smeared his body with blue paint. It was what he said while he was doing it. He said that if he had more color, he might have a sense of rhythm, a love of nature. He painted his genitals and said if he had more color he might be more virile. . . . ”

“Anti-abortionist Randall Terry exhorted listeners to his syndicated radio show in August to go to their local Barnes & Noble bookstores and tear up books featuring photos of young nude girls. . . ”

“It's true that Sam Walton lived in rural Arkansas, drove an old pickup truck and used down-to-earth good sense to build the Wal-Mart discounting empire. This was his 'folksy facade.' . . .”

	In a week in June when 15 GIs were killed in Iraq, the war pictures in the New York Times featured dazed Iraqis after a suicide bombing, a Marine patrolling, the twisted remains of a vehicle, wounded children, a civilian casualty in a morgue. No photographs featured American casualties--a typical absence in U.S. coverage of the war.... The images of war that appear today offer a marked contrast to the pictures of the dead and wounded from the Vietnam War, whose media coverage is credited with spurring protests through graphic images...	Article,: “Where Have All the Bodies Gone?” from Extra! the publication of FAIR—Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Click here to read the story in a pdf file (Courtesy of FAIR).
	If you happen to fall in to the New York Harbor, the Hudson, the East River, or Jamaica Bay, you need not fear bacterial infections or diseases from industrial pollution, according to a draft of a yearly report from the city's Department of Environmental Protection. Unless you fall in after a storm.	Article: “Clean Enough To Swim In Again?” from Gotham Gazette. Click here to read the article.
	After many years of effort a greenway of parks and paths rings most of Manhattan now – with some notable exceptions. One such exception is the Lower East Side.	Article: “East River Access from the Lower East Side,” from Gotham Gazette. Click here to read the article.
	“What we were hoping to get across to Hollywood,' Katherine Oliver the Mayor's Film Commissioner says, 'is If you shoot your entire film here, we'll give you the Brooklyn Bridge.'”	Feature: “Shooting in New York,” from Gotham Gazette. Click here to read the article.
	“Women made up nearly 40 percent of all daily reporters in 2003 . . . But just 32 percent of the New York Times' reporters are women. And few of those women get prominent positions for their stories.”	Article,: “New York Times Bylines Sideline Women,” from Extra! the publication of FAIR—Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Click here to read the story.
	“Walking home from school, fifth-grader Angel Rivera, who is stout and shorter by a head than the three girls he was with, volunteered that he likes the fruit punch best of the drinks in the new Snapple vending machine in his school, P.S. 134, on the Lower East Side. It's the sweetest, he says, and he needs his sugar. . . . . ”	Feature: “Obesity in the Schools,” from Gotham Gazette. Click here to read the article.
	“When Doug Tyson rang the doorbell of American Legion Post 7 in Durham, N.C., last May, he was surprised that he didn't get past the foyer. A disabled Vietnam veteran, he didn't realize that this veterans' service club was segregated. . . .”	Article: “The Old South: For some black veterans, segregation lingers on,” from In These Times. Click here to read it.
	“. . . A retired truck driver, Carl Porter became inspired to handle snakes after he saw the practice at a church service. 'I seen the Lord move on them. I wanted the Lord to move on me, and He did--told me to handle the serpent.' . . . ”	Article: “Snake Handling,” from Southern Exposure. Click here for pdf file. Design by Mia Prior.
	Ullman: “As soon as people start collecting data, and they have data about the same people in two databases, somehow databases want to combine. It's something in the nature of the technology that as soon as people have the data to do what's called data mining, they will. It's almost irresistible. . . . ”	Interview: Ellen Ullman, author of Technophilia and Its Discontents, from Britannica.com. Click here to read the article.
	“The problem wasn't that performer Ed Haggard took off his clothes during his one-person show, a section he called 'I'm too white,' and smeared his body with blue paint. It was what he said while he was doing it. He said that if he had more color, he might have a sense of rhythm, a love of nature. He painted his genitals and said if he had more color he might be more virile. . . . ”	Article, analysis: “The Alternate ROOTS Dilemma: From Little Black Sambo to Son of White Man,” from Southern Exposure.” Click here to read the article, reprinted by the Community Arts Network.
	“Morgan’s vision of Appalachian people is a romantic one, the flip side of familiar imaginings of the violence and evil, moonshine and madness in the mountains. . . . ”	Review: Gap Creek by Robert Morgan, from Now & Then and the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer. Click here to read it all.
	“Anti-abortionist Randall Terry exhorted listeners to his syndicated radio show in August to go to their local Barnes & Noble bookstores and tear up books featuring photos of young nude girls. . . ”	Article: “Two Real Page-Turners” (Randall Terry vs. photographer Jock Sturges), from In These Times. Click here to read the story.
	“It's true that Sam Walton lived in rural Arkansas, drove an old pickup truck and used down-to-earth good sense to build the Wal-Mart discounting empire. This was his 'folksy facade.' . . .”	Review: In Sam We Trust by Bob Ortega, from the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer (and other papers). Click here to read it.
		Photo: Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows off his batting stance at the annual police/fire stickball tournament last summer, from The Chief-Leader, New York City's Civil Employees' Weekly click here for more Chief pictures All photos copyrighted Pat Arnow © 2004 Please obtain permission from me before reproducing any photos in any way.
		Photo: Lacey, from an article by Jennifer Strom about her beloved dog, in the North Carolina Independent. Click here to read the story.
	Links to some of the publications	The Chief-Leader Community Arts Network Gotham Gazette In These Times Now & Then Britannica.com Southern Exposure
	More to come . . .