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September 24, 2003
Sheer Genius
Frank J has a grand idea.
Here's what I propose. I bet most of know some troops who have been are in Iraq and the almost forgotten Afghanistan. Let's record their stories of how things really are and have a blog devoted to just posting that with no commentary. The main page would be choice excerpts (and yes, bias would play into that, but, so what, we're biased) with links to the entire troops' statements. We put up both the good and the bad, with nothing to hide, but we get the real story out there. Separately, we continue to highlight the atrocities that were in Iraq and Afghanistan in contrast to how things are now. Also, we watch the major news outlets like a hawk, finding the worst of the offenders. We also need to try and make friends with what new media we can, getting exposure for the real stories from the war and shaming the outlets that are nothing but propagandists. And we have to not just get the story out in America but in other countries as well, which will be a lot harder.
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Posted by Rita at September 24, 2003 06:20 AM