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Attention to Detail Dear Robert, I have just had the pleasure of reading the article you wrote based on the interview you had with me (Peter London: Bringing Out the Artist Buried Inside Each of Us, Issue #535). I was delighted with the setting you gave our conversation, how responsible you were to the fullness and details of that exchange, and of course, the prominence you gave to the article. The substance of the piece was in good measure due to the preparation you put into it and the development of the ideas with which you surrounded the interview. I am so pleased that a person such as yourself who was injured early on by a misinformed teacher about what art is, and what art is for, should still be interested in pursuing those same issues and writing about it with such clarity and conviction. On second thought, your abbreviated career in the visual arts may well be precisely why you do pursue the issue in kind and degree that you do now. Thank you again for your work. You bring good news to life. Sincerely, Peter London, Fairhaven, Massachusetts More Thoughts on November Mr. Martin, I have just finished reading your publication (Issue #536). As I read the editorial entitled Worse Days, I got the feeling that I had read the same editorial a number of months (years?) ago relative to the same subject. In fact, if you go back in your editorial history, I think you will find that I sent a letter to you as a political opinion involving much of the same material uncovered, mentioning 15 items which I feared would come about as corporate brigades took over the government. You were kind enough to print 10 of them as I recall. I do not know if the foregoing is pertinent to being published as a 'Letter to the Editor', but I do have a comment to make relative to the results of November's election. As I watched in shocked silence, I saw the Republican victory emerge and could not understand it. Where were all the votes for progress? While I am one that feels on the National and possibly the State level that there is precious little difference between Democrats & Republicans, I sort of felt that Democrats still more or less represented the working masses. So where were those 'working masses' when the election rolled around? As I thought about it, I cam to what I think is a plausible explanation. I think it was Abraham Lincoln who said that if you tell a person a lie often enough and loud enough, they will begin to believe it. Contrary to popular opinion, the corporate media is NOT liberal. Oh, there are some commentators who make it sound like they are, but for the most part both the tabloid & electronic media 'sing the corporate song.' A number of books, notably one by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman entitled Manufacturing Consent are available, and are well written AND documented and show how the communications media, mostly by omission, article placement, tone, framework of presentation, repetition and presentation of related facts which may give meaning or preclude understanding, shade the news allowed by the corporate power structure which is then fed to the working masses as gospel. As we hear the same Republican tripe day after day (consider how CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC belabored us after 9/11 with the 'War on Terrorism', which I for one think is a Republican fabrication to keep the workers on edge and pliable to any ploy which the conservative minions may think will stuff their coffers), our opinions are gradually molded into the gospel according to Corporations. To me the Republican victory is a tribute to the successful efforts of corporate America to 'brainwash' the American masses. Sincerely, Gerald Hovis Saginaw, MI Credit Due The Review would like to note that the photographs taken last issue of the band BORN and of the band KILLSHOT in a prior profile were shot by local photographer Jamie Griffin. The Review welcomes your letters and comments. Please send all correspondence to: Letters to the Editor, Review Magazine, 318 S. Hamilton St., Saginaw, MI 48602. Or you can e-mail us online at mailto:acidpen@cris.com The Review welcomes your letters and comments. Please send all correspondence to: Letters to the Editor Review Magazine 318 S. Hamilton St Saginaw, MI 48602
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