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In my post about the Big Suck, my pal Anthony linked me to a blog about the Middle East by Michael Totten.
He quotes Christopher Hitchens:
“I have actually seen some of these demonstrations, most recently in Islamabad, and all I would do if I were a news editor is ask my camera team to take several steps back from the shot. We could then see a few dozen gesticulating men (very few women for some reason), their mustaches writhing as they scatter lighter fluid on a book or a flag or a hastily made effigy. Around them, a two-deep encirclement of camera crews. When the lights are turned off, the little gang disperses. And you may have noticed that the camera is always steady and in close-up on the flames, which it wouldn’t be if there was a big, surging mob involved.”
Very interesting indeed.
This is the best story written by someone who has been in Iraq during the conflict that I have read. David Morris is a teacher at UCLA (and a journalist, it seems) who has written this compelling story about being on the ground and being in the crosshairs of someone else’s scope.
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/winter/morris-jarhead-underground/
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