Great story about a Fox News cameraman named Chris Jackson. His Marine unit was hit by and IED. He was injured but went back into the burning Humvee to help rescue a Marine. Video at the link, too.

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Now, before you youngins start mocking me, remember that I grew up in rural New York before cable TV. The CBS station in Buffalo was the easiest and clearest we could pull in with our down-in-the-valley rooftop antenna.

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Social media guru Peter Shankman has an innovative idea up, called Help a Reporter. The premise is simple. Build a network of people on-line who know something. Have writers and reporters submit their information needs to the site. Twice a day, broadcast the current list of needs with contact info to the membership.

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The old media is beginning to be a day late and a dollar short. They don’t need to be but that’s the way they are applying their business model. I can see up to the minute coverage of many stories on line at no cost. What does the old media have to offer?

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Fire broke out at Universal Studios in Los Angeles about 7:45 a.m. this morning, in the same area as a 1990 fire. That fire cost the studio about $50 million in damages.

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CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier visits with Cpl. Izzy Flores, combat medic with 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, during training May 5 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin.

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The Iraqi government has been moving troops south since late summer, which did not go unnoticed by our leadership. There are American advisors at all levels of the military, from the Ministry of Defense on down. To suggest that the United States was not aware that this operation was going forward is nonsense. Dozens of Americans had to have had been aware.

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Oh, God, I’m about to say something nice about the New York Times. Do not adjust your set.
The Times’ Baghdad Bureau has a blog. It’s called Baghdad Bureau - Iraq From the Inside.
It appears to be an outstanding effort at a group blog. It’s full of information, pics, video, and links.
OK, now back to the [...]

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Six Afghan Air Corps troops trained by US Army Staff Sergeant Zachary Kramer, who is a member of a Mobile Training Team, graduated from from a ten-day Afghan Information Dissemination course. The purpose of the training is to provide additional tools and knowledge for the Afghan Air Corps on how to effectively disseminate information.
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In an effort to force the writers to end their strike, I give you my list:

Audrey Marie Anderson: The Unit. The kind of wife a lot of soldiers wish they had. Strong and sexy and tender and caring and hard as nails.
Gabrielle Anwar: Burn Notice. Don’t know if this show will return for a second [...]

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Fox 8 p.m. EST Sunday, January 13, 2008

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Tila Tequila - what can I say? I watched the show a few times. The guys were dorks, jocks but dorks. Some of the lesbians were very attractive, you know, the good gay.
Still, why would anyone watch this gal on a regular basis? Her brain makes interstellar space look crowded.
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Broken hearted and back with [...]

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