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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good to know the "whole story" on the US West
situation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My input was based on a quite different experience
at an O/S space conference on spirituality and business (as I recall) sometime
back in the last millennium, where a (supposedly similar) camera crew was
introduced at the beginning of proceedings in what sounds like a similar way. In
that case, my recollection is that there was quite a bit of discussion both
during and afterward about the discomfort felt by a number of people and
the "acting out for the cameras" behaviour in some cases, particularly
where the crew was filming actual sub-group meetings.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So I think of possible reasons for the different
"outcomes"... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- one was an intact group, the other
not?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- the nature of the theme?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- the expertise and sensitivity of the
crew?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- or perhaps the commitment to participants in US
West that they would get to sign off on what they said and could demur from
being filmed at all?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tend to think it might be a little bit of all the
above, especially the last one...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We should remember however that in neither of these
cases were the recorders 'journalists', in the sense that in both
situations there was editorial control over the output. I do not take it
that that will be (if it hasn't already happened) the case for
Tova...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In any event, good to have your additional
information about US West, Peggy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Winston</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>