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FADE IN

BOWLING FOR JOURNALISM

not by :  Michael  Moore

Directed by: Joe Vecchio

STARRING: 

 Steven Rogers:  as the unimaginative publisher

Frank Cammuso: as the myopic political cartoonist.

FADE OUT:

The sound of a music box begins. 

 FADE IN:

EXTERIOR: POST STANDARD BUILDING,   SUNNY DAY. NOON

cut to: 

INTERIOR SHOT. MEETING ROOM, DAY:  

close up of:  MANDY CANDY, 25,  young, fresh thinker, who's  willing to work, not sleep, her way to the top, talks in an editorial staff meeting:

MANDY CANDY

This Joe guy is funny. I liked his Sierra Club, Aids cartoon. We should have printed it. We need new people writing in to the editorial page.  I've seen the same names over and over for five years. . Why not start a new debate, these are new times, boys? 

MR  ROGERS

Miss Candy. Can I call you Mandy? .....You're fired!

MR. MANAGING EDITOR 

( getting his two-cents in )

He used the f- word with me on the phone.

He's out for good. I'll never print Borodino Joe.  Never. 

( he looks to the side of  the meeting room and says to Dick Case  and Frank Cammuso) 

"Right Dick? Right Frank? Borodino Joe is bad."

( Dick Case nods correct and smiles like he just won a journalistic award from the Syracuse Press Club on his Free Speech is MIA in CNY  article.)

MANDY

( unafraid of these jaded men )

Someday a woman is going to run the POST STANDARD. But until then, I'll work for Borodino Joe. He's fair and equal.

MUSIC FADES IN: Guitar riff from Santana's Black Magic Woman.

She steps away from the table and leaves her papers behind. Camera pulls in for a close up of  the following cartoons below.  We SEE: the two religious jokes that the Post won't print..  

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Evidence # 1

And you thought domestic violence only existed in the US of A. Next time you see a captured Redneck Taliban fighter, ask the journalist to ask him how many times in one week, he physically and verbally abused his wife and kids and other neighborhood ladies?   

For years we have mocked Christianity, now it's time to mock Islam.

CAMERA PULLS OVER THE NEXT CARTOON: 

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Evidence #2

The CIA should fund NOW (National Organization of Women),  members to help destroy  Radical Mosques that still teach 11 year old boys that women who don't wear burqas are going to hell.   

Not THE END.

PS. JUST IN:

LOCAL NEWS IN SYRACUSE:

HIP-HOP SUMMIT HELPS KIDS.  Friday's Post Standard.

HEY FRANK CAMMUSO and STEVEN ROGERS!

DUDE. WHERE'S MY NEWSPAPER?

Here's Borodino Joe's  new political  cartoon. The Post Standard would never want to "offend anyone" by making fun of Hip-hop. Hip-hop, like soap operas, need to be mocked.  So I will do it,  since Frank won't dare. 

How many times does the Post Standard have to print cartoons mocking Ashcroft? 10? See Saturday's editorial cartoon.  Jaded.  Print new cartoons, please. I beg you Mr Rogers. Please.  

I know about the Patriot Act and the Attorney General,  but Ten cartoons on one subject is a sign of journalistic LAZINESS.  Unless Roger's and Co are trying to make a point???  Like I'm stupid and need to be brainwashed by repetitive cartoons.  I have a quote from a respected black woman about how she feels like a prisoner in her own neighborhood.  Where are the political cartoons about this, Frank and Steve? 

  Evidence #3

  

I have never seen one fuel efficient vehicle promoted in hip-hop videos. I guess the environment is last to be loved and respected.  What does Islam say about all that ass and crotch shaking? And you thought it was all about OIL? 

Thank you for watching.

More to come. 

 

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