A reader suggested video for on TMV since it would certainly generate some discussion given TMV’s ideologically diverse readership (we know some people on all sides are bound to want to leave their analysis of it in comments).
This video of Green Day’s Wake Me Up When September Ends has received more than 1,600,000 viewings on You Tube. The song is presented in as an anti-war video. The song won as best song in the 2006 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and the album (dealing with post 911 American attitudes) from which it came won a Grammy in 2005.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.