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To: LindyBill who wrote (19570)	12/12/2003 9:34:07 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793574

What a coincidence, I just posted these to Carl on the FADG thread. healingiraq.blogspot.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (19570)	12/12/2003 9:42:04 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793574

this story was posted on si yesterday and I thought it mentioned 20,000 demonstrators

To: LindyBill who wrote (19570)	12/12/2003 2:06:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793574

I would hate to be the New Ombudsman at the Times right now. His mail box must be overflowing Good idea! I think I'll add to the overflow. I just sent the following letter to public@nytimes.com (the NYT has not gone so far in its embrace of an ombudsman as to make his email address easy to find, so I thought I should mention it here): Dear Mr. Okrent, Do you have any idea what it must be like to organize a demonstration after 30 years of the fear and trained passivity of living under a brutal dictatorship, and under active terrorist threat from Ba'athist and Jihadists thugs? But the Iraqis did it anyhow! Thousands of Iraqis, maybe five to ten thousand, took to the streets despite their fears to demonstrate for peace and against terror! And the New York Times buries one stinking paragraph on the demonstration at the end of a typical story of a terrorist attack. No coverage at all. Now, why do I think that if the same number of Iraqis had been waving "Yankee Go Home" signs, the New York Times would have been all over the demonstrations? Why do I have to get my news from Iraq from bloggers? Do you have any actual journalists in Iraq, or do they just read the wires? Yours, Nadine Carroll A former admirer of the Grey Lady