“I Live In The Bronx” Documentary Premiers on SalonChingon.com

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New Authentic Journalism Site to Feature Video, Audio, Photos and More

By Al Giordano
Narco News School of Authentic Journalism
September 11, 2003

bronx video previewSOMEWHERE IN AMÉRICA, SEPTEMBER 11, 2003: Three skylines: New York, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo, the three largest cities in our hemisphere, click to three languages; English, Spanish, and Portuguese, where a long-plotted addition to the Authentic Journalism renaissance has now uncloaked: the website of Salón Chingón (a loose translation would be “the fucking great salon”) is now online.

Go to http://www.salonchingon.com and, if the country from where you click predominantly speaks one of these three languages, you will automatically be directed to that page. Today, in the Salón Chingón cinema, marks the world wide web premier of a new documentary directed by its stars: residents, mainly schoolchildren, from New York’s “barrio bravo” of the Bronx. The 11-minute 45-second documentary is the means by which people of that borough explain what is happening in their neighborhoods, and includes a revealing interview conducted by schoolchildren of a representative of the New York Police Department, whose statements about drugs and crime in the Bronx contrast radically with the first-person accounts of the residents.
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