posted on May 13, 2005 01:44:03 PM new
And on the subject of my link/source in this and previous threads....I've read that even the NYT yesterday, May 12th, had an article in their newspaper that stated....."The Good News You've Missed". Speaking about this gentleman and his positive articles. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/05/12/opinion/20050513_opchart.html
Good News Travels Slowly to the NYT
In the Gray Lady, no less. Thank goodness for Arthur Chrenkoff, who does the hard work every two weeks of culling the tidbits of good news from the world's news sources and putting them in one place, so we can have some context for the violence in Iraq (hmmm, sounds like something MSM journalists should be doing).
Chrenkoff gives this explanation of his mission in his blog today:
"By way of a very brief explanation, the idea behind both series is not to deny or downplay the bad things and challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan (God knows, there are plenty of those), but to compile in one convenient location some of the stories about positive developments taking place over there, which all too often do not get reported in the mainstream media, or if they do, get lost among all the negativity."
"Everyone has a right to make their own judgment about what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, but you need to hear both sides of the story to make that judgment an informed one. Enjoy."
If you're not reading his round-ups, you should. They are a great antidote for the MSM's constant negativity. At the outset of this 21st-century war, the MSM spent a lot of time opining about how technology brings war to the homefront in a new and immediate way. Reporters commented on the novelty of embedded reporters with video phones, wondered at web-surfing and cell-phoning soldiers, and broadcast live convoy and combat action. The talk back then was about how technology has the effect of making war more real to American citizens, the implication being that closer coverage brings home the horrors of war.
But real doesn't just mean bad. Blog technology has also made war more real to American citizens, but not in the way the MSM expected or opined upon. Milblogs and bloggers' military correspondents gave many citizens first-hand reports of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan--good and bad. Technology has made this war real to me, not just by bringing home the horror, but allowing me to see the whole story.
After all, without blogs, how would a North Carolinian girl in D.C. be able to get her news on Iraq and Afghanistan from a Polish guy in Australia?
I'm glad the NYT is finally catching on to the great service Chrenkoff is offering. It's too bad that the MSM have been so preoccupied with bringing home the horror of war that they've missed how technology has truly made war real to us by showing us the good and bad, the gives and takes, the costs and the benefits. Now, that's news. The blogosphere knew it years before the NYT.
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Four More Years....YES!!!
[ edited by Linda_K on May 13, 2005 01:48 PM ]
posted on May 13, 2005 02:29:59 PM newread an article that said the people of Afghanistan are really suffering from hunger and malnutrition ***since*** their country was invaded (sorry, I meant liberated). How sad.
I think we all are forgetting that Afghanistan before this was in a 10 year war with Russia. They probably didn't get back on their feet before the next one. So can you blame it on one country? The US invasion was in 2001 and it was all about the Taliban. The hills in Afghanistan or maybe they are mountains, I don't know, are full of caves and tunnels where the terrorists can flee. What does the US do, leave Afghanistan or stay and try to find them?
Speaking about this gentleman and his positive articles.