Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/index.php?bio=marbrook http://thesop.org/index.php?bio=marbrook 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:47:00 GMT The American media is sick. Its invisible bacteria are infecting American politics in destructive ways, diverting attention from hometown and state corruption to Washington and instilling in the public mind the myth that Washington is the root of all evil http://thesop.org/story/20120129/the-press-focuses-attention-on-washington-and-away-from-local-corruption.html http://thesop.org/story/20120129/the-press-focuses-attention-on-washington-and-away-from-local-corruption.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:06:00 GMT Gerard Malanga's "Ghostly Berms," an exhibition of photographs of the overgrown remnants of the Harlem Line from Manhattan to Chatham, NY, which stopped running 40 years ago, is on display in Hillsdale, NY, east of Hudson. http://thesop.org/story/20120128/new-yorks-ghostly-rail-line-conjured-in-new-photo-exhibit.html http://thesop.org/story/20120128/new-yorks-ghostly-rail-line-conjured-in-new-photo-exhibit.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:12:00 GMT Let us now praise famous men, James Agee said famously. Journalism certainly does that. Probably too much, especially in a public relations age when you can become famous for being famous. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:56:00 GMT We pay a terrible societal cost for our compulsion to be right and to follow ideology blindly, says prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook. http://thesop.org/story/20120105/is-hatred-and-fear-of-women-behind-our-obsession-with-blind-ideology.html http://thesop.org/story/20120105/is-hatred-and-fear-of-women-behind-our-obsession-with-blind-ideology.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:40:00 GMT There is a simple way for Occupy Wall Street to challenge government at every level to be responsive to the public. Examine the records. http://thesop.org/story/20111226/government-wants-you-to-think-its-records-are-privatetheyre-not.html http://thesop.org/story/20111226/government-wants-you-to-think-its-records-are-privatetheyre-not.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:26:00 GMT A television show that never mentions wolves is the best example of how this social animal operates. 'Shameless' is a show about a beleagured family's tribal bonding against The Man, and The Man loses every time, simply because the Shameless wolf pack is so effective. http://thesop.org/story/20111223/the-tv-show-shameless-shows-us-why-wolves-are-so-effective.html http://thesop.org/story/20111223/the-tv-show-shameless-shows-us-why-wolves-are-so-effective.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:44:00 GMT These politicians sending us e-mails asking for another contribution: who do they think they're kidding? They've already been bought and paid for by money most of us can only dream about. http://thesop.org/story/20111222/help-send-more-money-were-drowning-in-it.html http://thesop.org/story/20111222/help-send-more-money-were-drowning-in-it.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:38:00 GMT As we withdraw from our Iraq misadventure after nine years, prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook, who has studied the Arab World for more than 50 years, reviews our "accomplishments." http://thesop.org/story/20111219/feeding-the-war-machine-do-the-corporados-want-another-war.html http://thesop.org/story/20111219/feeding-the-war-machine-do-the-corporados-want-another-war.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:22:00 GMT How can there be enough time to make policy, to govern and to negotiate the compromises needed to govern when politics 24/7 is driving America around the bend? http://thesop.org/story/20111217/america-has-become-so-politicized-nothing-gets-done.html http://thesop.org/story/20111217/america-has-become-so-politicized-nothing-gets-done.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:20:00 GMT In Abda, Hungary, a mass grave was exhumed in 1946 and the corpse of Hungarian poet, Miklos Radnoti, was found. In his raincoat pocket was a notebook containing his final ten poems. http://thesop.org/story/20111213/ten-final-poems-of-hungarian-holocaust-victim-reveal-undying-yearning-to-comprehend.html http://thesop.org/story/20111213/ten-final-poems-of-hungarian-holocaust-victim-reveal-undying-yearning-to-comprehend.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:21:00 GMT The New York City press and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have been treating us to an elaborate charade. It goes like this: the press complains that the cops have prevented it from covering Occupy Wall Street and the mayor claims that's not true. What a farce! http://thesop.org/story/20111212/who-is-the-new-york-press-kidding-it-ignored-the-protesters-first-amendment-rights.html http://thesop.org/story/20111212/who-is-the-new-york-press-kidding-it-ignored-the-protesters-first-amendment-rights.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 2 Dec 2011 21:44:00 GMT The incestuous relationship between America's richest one percent and their political lackeys and lobbyists is sickening American society, and yet the press pretends that everything will be just hunky-dory when housing starts pick up. http://thesop.org/story/20111202/one-word-describes-american-society-today-incest.html http://thesop.org/story/20111202/one-word-describes-american-society-today-incest.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:29:00 GMT Does the best-seller list reflect the best books? Are all the books that deserve to be published being published? Who decides what books deserve to be published? http://thesop.org/story/20111122/the-internet-lets-us-challenge-book-publishing-dogma.html http://thesop.org/story/20111122/the-internet-lets-us-challenge-book-publishing-dogma.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:31:00 GMT One of the hoariest political scams in America is the right-wing campaign to scapegoat the federal income tax while property taxes have soared in rural America where Republicans hold sway. http://thesop.org/story/20111102/by-scapegoating-federal-income-tax-republicans-pull-off-big-scam.html http://thesop.org/story/20111102/by-scapegoating-federal-income-tax-republicans-pull-off-big-scam.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:54:00 GMT Police across the nation are moving against the First Amendment, proving themselves the servants of a so-called free press that isn't free at all. http://thesop.org/story/20111025/the-internet-is-the-real-story-behind-occupy-wall-street-and-its-endangered.html http://thesop.org/story/20111025/the-internet-is-the-real-story-behind-occupy-wall-street-and-its-endangered.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor))