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  1. See “Blackfive”, on the Calvan blog.
    The moron gave a US soldier some attitude and blogged about it. He got so much stuff in his comments that he finally figured out he wasn’t as much of a stud as he’d thought.
    So he pulled the blog, thinking it would all go away.
    Blackfive has links to sites which have saved the entire thing.

  2. General George Meade tied a reporter to a horse facing the backend and rode him out of his camp.

    The revenge of the newspapermen of the time was to ignore Gen. Meade, victor at Gettysburg, for the rest of the war. They killed his postwar career, though I don’t know if he had political ambitions or not. After Gettysburg, he could have likely run for U.S. Senate or President.

  3. TNR was/is in a no win position on this. Admitting their folly would seem to require rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic for a second time. The embellished nature of the stories was completely obvious, especially where Beauchamp has this kid standing waist deep in sewage.

  4. We no longer need the press for an informed citizenry, Neo. They are superfluous, and exist only because of social, bureacratic, business, or technological inertial.

    The military, former and current, are quite adequate at informing the citizens concerning what is going on.

  5. Unfortunately, all too often, the press errs on the side of being oppositional in a kneejerk manner, rather than achieving the balance that would be most beneficial to everyone.

    Back then, the press could have made a case that they knew more than the people they were informing. Now a days, Neo, that doesn’t cut the steel rod anymore.

  6. “It gives one pause to think what the presence of bloggers would have created in the mid 19th century”
    Something like presence of printed books in 17 century – the Reformation.

  7. I’m with Uncle Billy Sherman. Anybody know where he’s buried? “Wake up, General! Wake up! There’s work to be done”

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