okay, what is open democracy?
i'm joking.
i'm semi-familiar with it but i must have missed the mailing on 'talk about this' lol.
sunday c.i.'s citing three stories from it and saying to check it out and monday katrina vanden heuvel (whom i've finally gotten off my lazy butt and added to the blog roll) is talking it up.
people, share the memos! i'll be happy to be on the same page.
so katrina's talking about open democracy in terms of their article on the impact bloggers are having in iran. c.i. was talking open democracy in terms of nepal for two articles and in terms of a third item which i'll highlight below.
Third, we'll note Brian Cathcart's "Polio: a war not yet won:"
One day it could rank among the greatest collaborative achievements of humankind, the fruit of decades of work by millions of people across the globe, at a cost of billions of dollars - but today, with triumph almost in sight, it may be in jeopardy. The campaign to rid the world of polio is suddenly on the defensive, with the virus popping up in countries previously thought clean and the flow of money to fund immunisations running dry.
Only a few years ago there were hopes that this year, 2005, would see the final case, the very last of all the many millions of children to be crippled or killed by this virus down the centuries. But instead the number of countries where people are catching polio has doubled to twelve and just this month a fresh pocket of infection turned up in Indonesia, where no one had caught the disease for a decade. Proving that sickness, too, is globalised in the modern world, a strain of the virus from northern Nigeria travelled first to Sudan, on to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and then across the ocean to Java - perhaps carried by migrant workers, perhaps by Muslim pilgrims going to and from Mecca; no one knows.
And just as it becomes clear that the huge effort to immunise millions of young children must be redoubled, the coalition of organisations leading the drive - the World Health Organisation (WHO), Unicef, Rotary International and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States – announce that they are $50 million short of the funding they need to carry on the effort past July.
This is an issue that Rebecca's noted and noted at her site Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude.
see i highlighted it because the spread of polio is something that concerns me and i'm a whore for a shout out.
a number of e-mails are coming in regarding w. mark felt who is said to be deep throat of the nixon era. (that would be the source for carl bernstein and woody's washington post expose series that changed journalism for about 10 minutes before journalism decided it was more interested in public relations.) vanity fair has the story. but the washington post is confirming it, or ben bradlee of the washington post.
and now carl bernstein and bob woodward have apparently joined in the confirmation.
i don't know. it seems like a parlor game.
and a nice way out considering rumors flying about who deep throat was in august of 2004.
reminds me of the man who claimed to be marilyn monroe's father and be the last call to her.
he got some headlines. but today no 1 remembers him and the reason is he wasn't the last call.
felt was probably a source.
but i'll wait a bit to see what happens before i start hollering 'deep throat! deep throat!' like kirsten dunst and michelle williams in dick (a very funny movie). i called a friend who'd the heard the rumor (to explosive to repeat) in august 2004 and asked, 'what do you think?' my friend said, 'i think things were getting a little hot and that's why bernstein and woody are breaking their word.'
and cnn this afternoon was reporting that bernstein and woodward were still maintaining that they would stick to their policy of not naming until deep throat was dead.
so it strikes me as strange that they suddenly decided to go along with ben bradlee.
i think in a bit, we'll be told 'oh by the way, ____ was also deep throat.'
maybe felt is deep throat but it's awfully strange that the day started with bernstein and woodward both being quoted as saying they'd only reveal deep throat when deep throat was dead and then they ended up coming around to say 'oh yeah, he's deep throat.'
i believe the rumor i heard in august. it was from a good source (some 1 at the washington post during the watergate period). so i won't do cart wheels over this.
again, felt may have been a source but i don't think he was the explosive source. it has to do with the information that deep throat supposedly passed on. (and no i'm not thinking it's john dean or any 1 that's usually mentioned.)
but, as c.i. would say, i could be wrong.
so make up your own minds.
