- #1 said "YES"
- #2 said "NO"
- #3 said "YES"
- #4 said "NO"
- #5 said "well, MAYBE IF..."
- #6 well you get the idea by now...
Than I found
Who Should You Believe - AP or Bloggers?
Hi, I'm a blogger.
And I'm a journalist for the Associated Press.
You're a journalist for AP? What are you working on?
Well, I just got back from Iran.
Were you reporting on those students that heckled Ahmadinejad?
Maybe you bloggers haven't heard, but we are fighting a war over there. I think that's a little more important than what some rowdy students might be doing.
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Wait, are you talking about Iraq?
Oh, right, Iraq. I do that all the time - they're spelled almost exactly alike, you know.
I know. And, by the way, everyone knows we're fighting a war in Iraq.
Thanks to the Associated Press!
Um...yeah. So, what's it like over there?
It's tough - surviving on rations, having to watch your back every minute, blistering heat.
You really gotta feel for the troops over there.
Who?
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Never mind. So, did you come away with any interesting stories?
Well, since the story will be out in the next couple of hours, I suppose I can let you in on this.
I broke a story about a particularly nasty incident involving some al-Qaeda people attacking a group of Sunnis.
Are you sure you've got that right? I'm pretty sure al-Qaeda is a Sunni organization.
Who can keep track - maybe they were sheilas.
You mean Shiites?
I guess. Anyway, that's not important - whatever they were, the one group dragged a bunch of the others out of their mask...
Mosque.
Whatever. They dragged these guys into the street and burned them alive.
Wow! Those must have been some pretty gruesome pictures.
Pictures... right. We didn't really get any pictures.
Oh. Well, I feel for you, man. I don't know if I could handle seeing something like that.
I didn't actually see what happened. Personally.
So, someone else from AP saw what happened?
Actually, we got the details from a source. That's a term we journalists use for...
I know what a source is. So, who was this source of yours?
Good question.
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So...who was it?
I believe his name is, uh...Sadam Hussein. Yes, that's it.
Dude, Sadam Hussein is the former dictator of Iraq.
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You know, the guy who was recently sentenced to death?
Oh, riiiight. I read about that somewhere. Come to think of it, my source's name is Barack Hussein.
That's the first and middle name of a U.S. Senator.
Sorry, I'm a little tired right now from the jet lag. Six-hour flight, you know.
Um, I've never been to Iraq, but I think it takes a lot longer than six hours to fly there.
Not if you fly first class. Anyway, my source's name should be easy to find out - he's Iraq's Interior Minister.
That's a story in itself - but I guess you already thought of that. Being a journalist.
Or did he work for the Interior Minister?
You might want to check into that.
Maybe he was an interior decorator.
Good thing they have editors at the AP.
Wait, I'm thinking of our source in Iran. Do we even have a source in Iraq?
Somebody should keep an eye on this guy.
UPDATE: I was almost asleep when I posted this, neglected to say the post is especially for Michelle and Curt.
Michelle, Curt, if you do go, stay safe. Personally, I don't trust Eason Jordan as far as I can throw him. After all, the man has a checkered past, to put it mildly.
In my opinion I believe a lot of new organizations lie or cover up or simply, and most often, don't tell whole story. but whatever. When it comes down to it I'm just a blogger using copy and paste for something to do at the moment!
Ima try to sleep again. night-night
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