Stephen Sidlo Photography Blog

The Greater Good

Currently reading ‘Tell me Lies”. What do I say? Talented and amazing professors looking into our involvement worldwide with issues, that is broadcast through our tv screens and Internet. The amount of fact and evidence tottaly knocking the news like CNN and BBC for six. They did a poll of a few hundred people up and down the US and Britain asking what the ‘Occupied Territories” were. It was shocking the results, answers like Palastine and Isreal are arguing over a border, or Palastinian/Isreali people are occupying each others land and both neighbours are telling each other to fuck off.

The truth is (other than the fact that the US give $4 Billion to Isreal in arms each year) that the news is told what to do, what to say..the choices of words. The fact that Isreal has a military stranglehold over Palastine and encamping thousands of them in their own country, cutting off medical aid and letting women die in pools of blood at checkpoints in childbirth, doesnt come into the equation.

Americas war on Terror, or The War against Terror, or T.W.A.T as I like to call it. Have an open mind for a minute. Isreal attacks Palastine and commits genocide and incamps tens of thousands of arabs..correct..good. Now when the BBC ask for a middle-east correspondant from Isreal they pull out the man with the suit sat in Washington DC…they pull out a Palastinian talker and he’s in army scruffs and with a bandana saying they want Isreal off their land….it reminds me of WW2. The French had a resistance…you’ve all seen Allo’ Allo’..so I will say this only once. Iraq or Palastine or even Swansea, Manchester or London. If we were invaded or illigally carpet bombed by the thousands..(Like a small town in Iraq that got carpet bombed, the U.S said it was a friendly fire mistake, so the BBC and CNN took it at face value…real reports and eye witnesses said that they came back for 3 days to carpet bomb the village..a woman lost 9 children in a house that the Americans said housed ‘bad guys’…the US apologised and gave each grieving person 5 grand…that means her children were worth 556 quid.)..then there would be a resistance for fuck sake.

Rebel fighter ‘Che’ is now considered a great man, will any of the resistance rebel fighters across the world over be given that? No because its against our troops. ‘We Must Support Our Troops’ I hear you say!! Then fucking bring them home!

Filed under: america, BBC, blog, britain, camera, che, CNN, dissertation, Iraq, isreali, lies, london, manchester, palastinian, photography, propaganda, student, troops

….Really?

Podcasts, News CSS feeds, Traffic, Online optimization…youtube and ebay. Strangely I enjoy all this..and thats a good thing because I’m about to become the first Eminem of the photography and business world. What? its already been done I hear you say…if your thinking of that dickhead Australian you’ve seen on that paparazzi programme on ITV then forget it.

Not like him, not when I’ll be a whizz at this sort of thing. I’ll nail it within a day, people fretting about online traffic to your site? I’ll be fuckin everywhere you wont get rid of me, my work, my plans, my writings, my blogs and my opinions…everywhere.

I’m currently finishing my degree of Photojournalism at university..while im making the UK’s first student magazine. Can you believe it? Neither could I, and i’ve looked. I looked at 2007′s winners for innovative student magazines and they were located for in-campus or in-city. Fuck that aim higher…thats what Bransons mistake was.

..Enough about Branson, at the present time I’m not interested in train and plane enterprises…(even though virgins my broadband supplier). I’m on about personal growth and development, I feel I am going at an incredible rate. Not with my constant travels to warzones or historic bike journeys but buisness. My business knowledge is very good and will only continue to get better. My Internet skills are finally going into something and I feel if I don’t get in fast by next week I’m fucked.

My websites coming along nicely, my portfolio too. I can tell you about them if you muppets want to know..not muppets…not at all. Your a godsend, I want you looking at me, telling your friends. With this first post I generally want to show how passionate I am, but after growing up passion really doesnt cut it totally to open the door. But I have a fuckin huge key nonetheless, and im about to open it…..

Filed under: business, journalism, magazine, photography, podcast, student

Who writes all this?

Stephen Sidlo Photojournalist

Head Publisher for Demotix. Photojournalist, Conflict & NGO documentarian. Gonzo participator in journalism. Humanitarian. Occasional Skydiver. Black coffee, two sugars. Views my own.

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