Bad News: Bill Simmon’s film about local political blogger Steve Benen (of The Carpetbagger Report) was rejected by South by Southwest. Sorry, Bill!

Good News: Bill wrote a blog post about his rejection, and provided a link to his film on YouTube.

Here it is, the Goldstone-award-winning short film, Digital Pamphleteer.

For more background on Steve in print, here’s an article I wrote about him in 2006, called Posting Truth to Power.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PceDUvAt-Aw%26rel%3D1

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