Slog - Comments on Convention Prep http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/convention_prep As you've heard, Eli Sanders, Charles Mudede and I will be flying to Denver this weekend to cover the Democratic National Convention. Part of Charles's beat will be to cover the protests, organized by the hilariously self-monikered Recreate '68 group. But why would you bother to recreate '68 when you can experience the real thing on film? (Kidding. Sort of.) One of my favorite movies ever, despite its hokey Appalachian flashbacks and low-grade, persistent sexism, is Medium Cool, cinematographer Haskell Wexler's enormously enjoyable treatise on the difficulty of journalistic objectivity. There's a sun-bathed baptism in green mountains. There's a Chicago... Copyright 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:52:21 -0800 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:56 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle If you're looking for riots, you're in the wrong place.

This year it's at the GOP convention.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/convention_prep#c1111658 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/convention_prep#c1111658 Politics Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:56 -0800