NP? the War Channel

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I thought CNN was the War Channel. With Fox News as the Cheerleader Channel

on 4/2/03 10:03 AM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/02/MN263954.DTL>
> 
> The words of Paul Saffo linger. "Beware the
> military-entertainment complex."
> 
> Saffo is a well-respected "technology forecaster" who
> runs the Institute for the Future, an independent,
> nonprofit research firm in Menlo Park. Last week, he
> made a prediction, with absolutely no sense of irony:
> "It's just a matter of time before we have the War
> Channel." 
> 
> Saffo believes there's no turning back now from the
> Pentagon's policy of embedding journalists. He
> believes there's a natural group of journalists who
> are "war groupies" willing to go anywhere to cover
> war. Now, if you toss in international reporters who
> are either getting their proverbial feet wet in Iraq
> and foreign correspondents who are learning how to use
> new technology more smoothly, you've got a group ripe
> to be cherry-picked by someone like . . . Rupert
> Murdoch, maybe? 
> 
> The more you think about it, the more a War Channel
> makes sense. As Saffo said, "If we can have a Weather
> Channel, why not a War Channel?" [...]
> 
> ...and that would be just the ticket for the War that
> Never Ends.  Saffo's an old aquaintance and colleague,
> he wrote the foreward for a book I co-wrote and edited
> some years back; his predictions have often been
> correct.
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 
> 
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