music friday: 1981
film fatales #197: the eternal memory (maite alberdi, 2023)

mehdi hasan and zeteo

I rarely talk about current affairs ... this blog has a category devoted to it with close to 800 posts over the years, but this is the first post with that tag since November of 2022. The blog has narrowed significantly since its beginning in 2002, no question, and I don't have a reason beyond laziness. But it's also true that I might feel I have something to contribute to a discussion about film, but when I think about politics, there's always someone out there who knows more than I do and says what I think more effectively than I would.

Mehdi Hasan is an example of this. He is from England (and is now a naturalized citizen of the US). His journalism career includes time spent at the BBC, Al Jazeera, and more recently MSNBC, where he often offered takes on topics that made me wonder how a mainstream news organization in this day and age let him on the air. My fears were probably right, since MSNBC gradually cut Hasan's time on air. At the beginning of 2024, Hasan left the network, and he has now resurfaced with Zeteo, "where independent and unfiltered journalism is making its comeback." Zeteo claims to be "a new media organization that seeks answers for the questions that really matter, while always striving for the truth." They have a home on Substack (zeteonews.com), and big plans for the future. Yesterday, Hasan hosted a Zoom "Town Hall" where he answered questions for about 40 minutes.

Zeteo is a subscription service. Here is a brief introduction:

Hasan sounds very ambitious, and only time will tell if he will deliver. I like his track record.

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