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October 11, 2005
Times of the signs: what editors do
A few hours after talking to Marc Levin about The Protocols of Zion, it's weird to find a Sunday NY Times piece by David M. Halbfinger rife with coded journalistic phrase-bending from what the Village Voice's Ward Harkavy calls "the paper of broken record": "In the documentary The Protocols of Zion, which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Oct. 21, the director... sets out to understand what he sees as a surge in anti-Semitism since 9/11... The film echoes [films by Michael Moore] in style, allowing its targets to incriminate themselves. But Mr. Levin's film, unlike... Moore's, provides few clear answers to the questions it stirs, though Mr. Levin takes pains to refute the canard that no Jews died at the World Trade Center. The title is borrowed from a century-old tract, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which sought to expose a Jewish plot for world domination [allegedly] hatched in a secret graveyard meeting. Mr. Levin discussed his work with David M. Halbfinger recently over drinks in Beverly Hills." Whatever civil and genteel exchange might transpire over drinks in Beverly Hills and whatever ecumenically inclined particulars of the style manual amended after Howell Raines' era this mouthful might fulfill, such a prissy citing makes it sound as if whatever follows should not be taken seriously.
Posted by pride at October 11, 2005 12:04 AM
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