{"article":{"id":13262,"heading":"E-mail Games With CNN <art project 12>","author":"Ken Ehrlich","created":"2001-12-03 02:51:39","modified":"2015-12-18 10:15:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:15:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In terms of responses to the war, one of the things <br>  <br> I've been interested in is the way the internet is <br>  <br> used to support, deconstruct, deride, and decode so <br>  <br> many different points of view in relation to the <br>  <br> current crisis. I have been sending questions to CNN <br>  <br> via their web site that deal with this very issue in a <br>  <br> roundabout sort of way. They have this service on the <br>  <br> site where 'anyone' can participate in the news <br>  <br> production by asking CNN's experts anything they would <br>  <br> like about the current situation. Assuming that <br>  <br> editing the questions is part of the highly complex <br>  <br> and coded system of media production a news service <br>  <br> like CNN must engage, I have been sending questions <br>  <br> that, while I am genuinely interested in answers, I <br>  <br> don't imagine the mechanisms of CNN will engage. <br>  <br> Examples have been: Why is George W. Bush engaging in <br>  <br> bombastic war rhetoric when it seems clear that from <br>  <br> the point of view of American foriegn policy and for <br>  <br> people on the ground in Afghanistan, a prolonged <br>  <br> military conflict will have disasterous results? or <br>  <br> How can the current conflict in Afghanistan be <br>  <br> contextualized vis-a-vis the Soviet invasion in the <br>  <br> 1979 and the U.S. support for resistance? I have <br>  <br> recieved an identical form letter for every question I <br>  <br> send askCNN. I don't know for sure if my questions are <br>  <br> ever adressed or not. It would be interesting if more <br>  <br> people began innundating CNN with difficult questions. <br>  <br> It seems that this might poke fun at the 'democratic' <br>  <br> claims of the internet and corporate media services. <br><br>  <br>  <br> ken<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"kenehr@yahoo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Here is what artist\/writer Ken Ehrlick has been doing in response to 9\/11","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/12\/13262.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}