Hmmm… What kind of question is that? Perhaps a little background is necessary.
Yesterday I got an email from my neighbor who is working in Iraq as a producer for ABC News. He asked me to go check out an article he recently posted to the ABC website, so I went to the ABC News main page, and what did I find? Anna Nicole Smith was their feature story of the day. When will this story go away? Why does the mainstream media pay so much attention to it? Why does the American public pay so much attention to it? All good questions. I have no answers…
Which reminds me of why my neighbor is in Iraq. He went their to cover the news. In his latest email, he wrote that there was a rocket attack a couple days ago that must have been pretty close to him. He said it “Scared the bejesus out of me.”
What would he be covering if he was safe at home? Well he used to work on a lot of the stories that Americans find so fascinating like Jon Benet Ramsey and Laci Peterson, so who knows? Maybe he’d be in Fort Lauderdale covering Anna Nicole Smith’s decomposing body.
Back to Iraq… Here’s his story: You Be the Commander: Get a Sense of the Decision Facing Troops in Iraq. After reading the story about soldiers that located two Al Qaeda operatives in a safe house, you are given two choices of action for taking them out.
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