Make Believe Counter-Insurgency
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- Published on Friday, 31 December 2010 04:17
By STEWART J. LAWRENCE
War, the old saying goes, is "hell." But what about video war? Polls show that many Americans are fast souring on US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, paradoxically, sales of video war-games like Call of Duty, which allow consumers to become "cyber-soldiers," pulling the trigger on Taliban-style "terrorists" in wars just like the ones they say they oppose in real life, are booming.
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Helen Thomas: Thrown to the wolves
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- Published on Friday, 31 December 2010 01:42
In 1960, I was fixated on emulating the courageous media personalities of the times, from Edward R. Murrow to a distinctive figure I came to admire at presidential press conferences - a wire service reporter named Helen Thomas.