{"id":364,"date":"2003-03-14T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=364"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:32","slug":"war-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"War Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/conflict\/0,2100,58043,00.html?tw=wn_ascii\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>Wired<\/i> article<\/a> alerted me to Christopher Allbritton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.back-to-iraq.com\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">blog<\/a> about the impending US atrocities against Iraq, and his plans to provide independent coverage of the war. In spite of my pessimistic view that blogs like this are just preaching to the choir and not convincing anybody who isn&#8217;t already convinced, I think this is an effort worth supporting (and have the PayPal receipt to prove it). The American public needs and deserves an alternative to the corporate &#8220;journalism&#8221; which is the sole source of &#8220;news&#8221; for a large segment of the population (possibly explaining the ignorance exposed in polls such as the one I mentioned in an <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blog\/article.php?story=20030110215743199\" Target=\"Offsite\">earlier rant<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wired article alerted me to Christopher Allbritton&#8217;s blog about the impending US atrocities against Iraq, and his plans to provide independent coverage of the war. In spite of my pessimistic view that blogs like this are just preaching to the choir and not convincing anybody who isn&#8217;t already convinced, I think this is an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=364\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War Blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-5S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}