National Police Chief Executes Vietcong

Epix Courts Younger Viewers with Interactive Doc Block

"It's very simpatico with what we feel is our brand position," said President and CEO Epix Mark Greenberg. "When we started this adventure we decided we would try to reach a wider audience young. "

When planning frameworks of the network were the showcase documentary, Greenberg adds, "We thought, how we use the delivery of Internet content to reach that younger audience? We firmly believe that today's young people [viewers] are more socially conscious than any other generation in 20 or 30 years. This group really cares about the environment. And they become engaged.We have seen that the 2008 presidential election. "

Epix sponsored a virtual town hall in October around Superman, which was well attended, said Nora Ryan, chief of staff Epix, and has won several industry awards. It included the Guggenheim and then to New York Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and was moderated by Arianna Huffington.

"This is the kind of interactivity to our platform gives us when we want to get deeper into an issue," said Ryan.

Wednesday night's screening of Superman Epix, rather it revolves around vegetarian goblins who turn humans into vegetables so they can eat. Epix will host an interactive Q & A with the actors of the film, including George Hardy, a dentist from Alabama who played in what many consider to be among the worst films of all time.

Epix was launched after the Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM failed to conclude a license agreement with Showtime's new film in 2008. Showtime began to move away from film and invest more in original programming.Launched initially as a VOD service, Epix is ​​still relatively low. It has about 10 million subscribers and is available on the Charter, Cox, flat, Mediacom, NCTC, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS.

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As part of a marketing course I once took, everyone in the class was asked to give a lecture on how a completely accurate, un-retouched photograph could be used to sell a point of view contrary to what was actually being shown.

To this day, I'm not entirely sure what the professor was looking for, but when it came time to give our lecture, most of the class used cigarette and liquor ads to demonstrate how it was possible to make something demonstratively harmful appear pleasurable and even attractive.

I took my lecture in a completely different direction.  And to this day, when I'm confronted with someone waving a picture or film in my face to 'prove' Israeli wrong-doing, I trot out that lecture.  For the sake of time-saving, it occurred to me that I might as well enshrine the lecture here so that it can be easily accessed for future reference:

Most of you are likely familiar with the following Pulitzer Price winning photograph, which is one of the most famous images in the history of photo-journalism:

This photograph, taken by Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968 in Saigon, was not staged, retouched or in any way manipulated.  In fact, the photo is doubly remarkable for the fact that the scene - the summary execution of a handcuffed prisoner -  took place in full view of, and close proximity to, a still photographer from the Associated Press, and a TV cameraman from NBC, both of whom documented the event.

What the photograph shows is General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, the Republic of Vietnam's (also known as South Vietnam) Chief of National Police, the instant after he pulled the trigger of his personal sidearm, sending a single bullet through the head of  Nguyễn Văn Lém, a captured Viet Cong fighter (I use the word advisedly instead of 'soldier' since this man, like many in that, and subsequent conflicts, is not wearing a uniform or any insignia)..

Careful study of the photo actually reveals the fired bullet exiting the other side of the prisoner's head, and the dying man's features are contorted in an involuntary grimace of pain.

The photo, along with the footage filmed by the NBC TV cameraman, was transmitted and viewed around the world, and is widely considered the turning point in American public opinion against the war in Vietnam.  By most objective standards, the photograph perfectly demonstrates the brutality of our South Vietnamese allies, as well as the gratuitous violence inherent throughout that particular conflict.  It made Suburban America begin to wonder what place we had in such a war.

Crucible of power, A history of American foreign relations from 1945

The New York times, the complete front pages, 1851-2009

Big story, how the American press and television reported and interpreted the crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington

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