by Mike Browne
on March 31, 2003
Reporters have been having some difficulties during the Iraq war. Some have been killed, wounded or are missing. Others are constantly backpedalling on what they have reported as it turns out only to be rumour. Last week a Christian Science Monitor reporter was un-embedded for giving away too much information during a live broadcast. Today the notorious Geraldo Rivera (who claims it’s not true and called MSNBC “pathetic” for spreading a “pack of lies”) was given the boot for exactly the same thing. And finally, NBC has fired Peter Arnett for telling Iraqi TV that the American war plan has failed.
Could it be true? Are these reporters human? Are they truly imperfect and often wrong? You betcha they are. Remember, the news ain’t necessarily an honest objective statement of what’s happening. There’s always that filter of human falliblity between the facts and the story we get. A live as-it-happens war sure does have it’s pitfalls.
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by Mike Browne
on March 30, 2003
Engineer: Saddam’s Bunker Should Survive
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by Mike Browne
on March 29, 2003
I used to collect buttons when I was a kid. My favourite was one that said, “dead people are cool”.
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by Mike Browne
on March 28, 2003
CBC News: SARS screening to be expanded
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by Mike Browne
on March 28, 2003
I went to IGA on Burrard St today to pick up some Texas BBQ chicken wings and a bottle of water for lunch. Pathetic, eh? Anyway, I went to the regular check out to buy my stuff because the deli line up was too long. Who should be standing in line in front of me, but Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. Mr Sheen was telling the cashier how he had just finished filming a movie here in Vancouver. It was most likely Scary Movie 3, they’re both in that one.
I was going to ask for their autographs before they got into a waiting Yellow Cab and drove off, but someone else beat me too it and I didn’t have the heart to irritate them further. They were grocery shopping for God’s sake not out at a celebrity mixer.
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by Mike Browne
on March 28, 2003
Yahoo! Top Stories – ‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
Thanks to Chuff for the link.
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by Mike Browne
on March 28, 2003
Top Ten Myths About the War in Iraq- War brings forth strenuous efforts to report what is happening and why. It also brings forth many persistent myths. Here are ten of them. There are more, but you get the idea.
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by Mike Browne
on March 28, 2003
There are US soldiers in Iraq who are posting to their blogs ad things happen. Hear about the war from the soldiers at: LT SMASH, A Minute Longer and Sgt Strykers Daily Briefing are a few of note.
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