US Army bullies blogger, invades YouTube
For years, the Pentagon has come under harsh criticism its brain-dead approach to handling the media, broadly defined. From clamping down on bloggers to chucking out embedded reporters to banning digital cameras to quaking in fear of web developments, the military’s press operators seemed to miss no opportunity to shoot themselves in the collective foot, repeatedly. All this, while insurgents trained potential terrorists online, advertised their martial prowess on YouTube, even sold t-shirts over the ‘net.
But recently, things have begun to change. The Defense Department’s Pentagon Channel started posting YouTube-esque videos. Bloggers have been called into more and more conference calls with senior leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. Multi-National Force-Iraq set up its own YouTube channel.
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Reverend Thomas
September 5th, 2007 at 4:55 amI would like to help protect our troops by sending them a Blessing from God certificate from the website www.godsblessingsforyou.com
If people could please send me email addresses for their loved ones who are serving in the Armed Forces, I will send them Gods Blessing.
Or you may wish to send them a personal blessing yourself.
Reverend Thomas