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An excerpt from Naomi Klein's latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The erasing of Iraq
It's hard to believe - but then again, that was pretty much Washington's game plan for Iraq: shock and terrorize the entire country, deliberately ruin its infrastructure, do nothing while its culture and history are ransacked, then make it all OK with an unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported junk food. In Iraq, this cycle of culture erasing and culture replacing was not theoretical; it all unfolded in a matter of weeks.
Like the prisoners in Guantánamo's love shack, all of Iraq was going to be bought off with Pringles and pop culture - that, at least, was the Bush administration's idea of a postwar plan.
Here's a great article about newspapers taking their operations to the web, often with not very much success. Lesson three is Reader Reactions Often Can Turn Ugly - have you ever checked out replies to online stories from your local newspaper? Some of the nastiest responses I've ever come across on the web can be found there. Check out the comments following this Union-Tribune story, pretty typical of what you'll come across: Web Editors Reveal Online Flops or Failures
After more than 10 years of newspapers slowly migrating to the Web, most have embraced the medium as their future, showing they can break news, provide audio and video extras, and give readers more space to react and rebut than ever before. Successes are many, ranging from exclusive online interviews to sourcing details that give readers more complete information than any daily could have provided just a few years ago. Even the Pulitzer Prizes are giving props to Web-based offerings.
But with those accomplishments and expansions have come no shortage of starts and stops, bumps, flops, and sometimes outright debacles. We all remember the Los Angeles Times' "Wikipedia" experiment with its reader-altered editorials and the uproar over The Washington Post hiring a conservative blogger - with plagiarism offenses in his past - in the name of balance. In a decade-plus of Web exploration, nearly every daily has felt the growing pains that any new news tool requires.
I think Burger King food will slowly kill you, but now be especially on the lookout for their dangerous side orders: Man Says Crash Saved Him From Choking On Onion Ring
Bryan Rocco has a hunger for fast food but never thought a Burger King onion ring would almost kill him, NBC 10's Ted Greenberg reported."I was eating my lunch on the road," Rocco said, adding that he soon found himself "gasping for air."
"I was coughing. I tried to wash it down with soda. That didn't work," Rocco said. "I blacked out - must have passed out from choking on an onion ring," Rocco said.
The SUV he was driving jumped the curb and slammed into a tree. But when he came to, the onion ring was gone.
An excerpt from Naomi Klein's latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The erasing of IraqIt's hard to believe - but then again, that was pretty much Washington's game plan for Iraq: shock and terrorize the entire country, deliberately ruin its infrastructure, do nothing while its culture and history are ransacked, then make it all OK with an unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported junk food. In Iraq, this cycle of culture erasing and culture replacing was not theoretical; it all unfolded in a matter of weeks.
Like the prisoners in Guantánamo's love shack, all of Iraq was going to be bought off with Pringles and pop culture - that, at least, was the Bush administration's idea of a postwar plan.
The Ramones: Gimmie Gimmie Shock Treatment - 2.69MB
Here's a great article about newspapers taking their operations to the web, often with not very much success. Lesson three is Reader Reactions Often Can Turn Ugly - have you ever checked out replies to online stories from your local newspaper? Some of the nastiest responses I've ever come across on the web can be found there. Check out the comments following this Union-Tribune story, pretty typical of what you'll come across: Web Editors Reveal Online Flops or Failures After more than 10 years of newspapers slowly migrating to the Web, most have embraced the medium as their future, showing they can break news, provide audio and video extras, and give readers more space to react and rebut than ever before. Successes are many, ranging from exclusive online interviews to sourcing details that give readers more complete information than any daily could have provided just a few years ago. Even the Pulitzer Prizes are giving props to Web-based offerings.
But with those accomplishments and expansions have come no shortage of starts and stops, bumps, flops, and sometimes outright debacles. We all remember the Los Angeles Times' "Wikipedia" experiment with its reader-altered editorials and the uproar over The Washington Post hiring a conservative blogger - with plagiarism offenses in his past - in the name of balance. In a decade-plus of Web exploration, nearly every daily has felt the growing pains that any new news tool requires.
Big Joe Turner: Flip Flop And Fly - 4.49MB
I think Burger King food will slowly kill you, but now be especially on the lookout for their dangerous side orders: Man Says Crash Saved Him From Choking On Onion RingBryan Rocco has a hunger for fast food but never thought a Burger King onion ring would almost kill him, NBC 10's Ted Greenberg reported."I was eating my lunch on the road," Rocco said, adding that he soon found himself "gasping for air."
"I was coughing. I tried to wash it down with soda. That didn't work," Rocco said. "I blacked out - must have passed out from choking on an onion ring," Rocco said.
The SUV he was driving jumped the curb and slammed into a tree. But when he came to, the onion ring was gone.
Distortionz: Onion Rings - 9.29MB
