Video Age International October 2016

60 Event Planner & Travel News October 2016 V I D E O A G E LARRY GERSHMAN Honoree in the Discop Johannesburg/ATF Issues International TV Distribution Hall of Fame who built an industry distribution executives Honoring VIDEOAGE‘ s The ProblemWith Airport Security Is The Wrong Security Patrick Smith, an airline pilot, wrote about airport security on his blog: “Security is of two kinds: practical and effective, and irrational and pointless. The first takes place behind the scenes: Explosives scanning for checked luggage, for instance. The second variety — such as frisking, x-raying, body scanning and confiscating — wastes our time andmoney.” According to Smith, there are two flaws in this approach: The first is a strategy that looks upon every person who flies as a potential terrorist. That is to say, searching for weapons rather than people who might actually use weapons. Smith wrote that prison guards cannot manage to keep knives out of a maximum-security cell, let alone trying to root out every weapon at an overcrowded terminal. Plus, pilots and flight attendants undergo the same x-ray and metal detector screening as passengers, [but] U.S. airport groundworkers, are exempt fromscreening. The second flaw, Smith wrote, is the concern with the tactics used by the terrorists on September 11th; [but] the 2001 attack was not a failure of airport security. It was a failure of national security — a breakdown of communication and oversight at the FBI and CIA levels, he said. As to the restrictions on liquids and gels, he quoted Thomas Greene, a security expert, “The notion that explosives can be cooked up in an airplane lavatory is pure fiction. Liquid explosives can pose a danger, but the idea that confiscating someone’s toothpaste is going to keep us safe is too ridiculous to entertain.” MIPCOM OCTOBER 17-20 Cannes, France Tel: (212) 370-7470 Fax: (212) 370-7471 www.mipcom.com VideoAge bonus distribution SPORTELMONACO OCTOBER 24-27 Monaco, Monte-Carlo Tel: (377) 9330 2032 Fax: (377) 9330 2033 www.sportelmonaco.com VideoAge bonus distribution MIP Cancun NOVEMBER 16-18 Cancun, Mexico Tel: +1 (212) 284-5140 hugo.della-mota@reedmidem.com DISCOP AFRICA NOVEMBER 2-4 Johannesburg, South Africa Tel: (323) 782-1300 www.discopafrica.com VideoAge bonus distribution AFM NOVEMBER 2-9 Santa Monica, CA Tel: (310) 446-1000 Fax: (310) 446-1600 www.americanfilmmarket.com VideoAge bonus distribution NAB Show New York November 9, 10 Javits Convention Center Tel. 301-682-7962 NABShowNY@experient-inc.com www.nabshowny.com VideoAge bonus distribution ASIA TV FORUM DECEMBER 7-9 Republic of Singapore Tel: (65) 6780 4697 Fax: (65) 6588 3798 www.asiatvforum.com VideoAge bonus distribution NAB SHOW GIX DECEMBER 7-8 Shanghai, China Tel: (202) 429-5300 Fax: (202) 775-2145 gixshanghai.nabshow.com