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From: LindyBill	8/12/2005 11:50:16 PM
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The "PostWatch" blog echoes my sentiments on this article. The Post Plays To Type On Milblogger Story What do you suppose the Post would focus on in a front-page story titled The New Ernie Pyles: Sgtlizzie and 67cshdocs by Jonathan Finer? 1. Milbloggers often complain that mainstream media is biased against the war and don't report on the good they're doing. This is their story... 2. Military officials earlier this year issued regulations on milblogs, and some have been shut down after reporting on casualties and antiwar sentiment among troops 3. Other blogs haven't been shut down. They report on the horror of war. 4. I know, let's run a sidebar featuring an Iraqi blogger with a "chilling 5,000-word posting" on being interrogated by U.S. forces. PostWatch readers know they can skip "1" and run merrily along to 2,3 and 4. There is exactly one half of one sentence about milblogger attitudes toward the media: Many bloggers say they do it to keep friends and family up to date or to counter what they consider the biases of the mainstream media. For example, Finer continues. Kidding! The next words actually read: Many entries are deeply personal. Battered but still able to perform her duties, Le Bel returned to her unit a few days after the roadside bomb attack.... "I am now deathly afraid of the nightmares I have already seen bits and pieces of.... Dear Washington Post: Why won't you tell me what's going on in the world? I mean all of it? postwatchblog.com

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