crankymessiah wrote:
] This is finally getting to me. How on earth can you reconcile
] the worlds of military intelligence, battlefield tactics and
] 24-hour news channels?

Beer, football, and Fox.

] Are we looking at the best possible
] compromise, or just being force-fed the Gerber Baby
] Propaganda?

Force fed Gerber Baby Propaganda.

] We all know that everyone else in the world (including Iraq)
] is watching CNN. How much can we expect from any such
] coverage?

More advertising.. I was expecting more advertising.. The only thing missing is Microsoft logos on the sides of the tanks raging across the desert. Then all my nightmares will have taken form..

] I'm afraid to say that this whole thing is showing that we
] (the info-rich individuals with half of a skeptic bone in our
] body who wish that the Internet was able to serve us the raw
] data that it SHOULD) have absolutely nothing when compared
] with the MediaMachine. Raw Data? The lowest common
] demoninator rules this land, and the LCD just loves to know
] that the RedWhiteBlue is flying high over some poor little
] brown people who need to be liberated. In the meantime, CNN
] is going to show the LCD what it wants to see, which is tanks
] rolling across the battlefield. In the meantime, when someone
] finds a good (deleted) who can forward along battlefield recon
] data, let me know - I'm game.

Thats why I was so pissed when http://www.kevinsites.com got shutdown.. I had great expectations for that blog..

The key thing that all the major news outlets are all horny over is how real-time they can get with the data.. Thats why we are spending 2 hours looking at a tank drive thru a mostly non-changing desert LIVE, while they talk about how cool it is.. Or spending 2 hours watching an empty field LIVE, waiting for a bomb to drop on it..

The situation could improve.. We are only a few days into this.. The clamps on information could start to ease up as it moves along.. Or, it could be just the opposite, and it gets worse.. Who knows? We will find out I guess..

Tommorow will probably be the day when the interviews with the liberated iraqis start to appear.. Where we finally get our chance to see what they have to say about Saddam when his minders and the fear of persecution are no longer present.. And moreover, what they have to say about Americans and the way Iraq has been liberated. It will be interesting to see the manner in which its all handled..

] Sorry. I'm just mad because I've spent a lot of good time and
] effort towards helping my inner child defeat my inner cynic.
] The inner cynic has, in the past few days, fairly abused my
] inner child.

The cynic always wins..

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