From the blogs4God
Top Ten lists I
have selected six of the most popular blogs. How are they covering the war?
With honour.
* G. Thomas
Fitzpatrick’s Verus Ratio,
Number One on the list, is now Verus Ratio Goes To War, an efficient warblog,
with up to two dozen postings a day. I enjoyed the following:
Priceless Exchange
Between Two Royal Marines On TV
British Defence Minister Geoff Hoon described Umm Qasr as a "city rather
like Southampton”. Sky TV asked two Royal Marines about that:
First soldier: “He’s
either never been to Southampton or he’s never been to Umm Qasr.”
Second soldier:
“There’s no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It’s more
like Portsmouth.”
*
Joshua Claybourn, Number Two on
the list, doesn’t need to change his title. He’s been at war for some time,
blogging provocatively on the subject, and never afraid to take the argument
into hostile territory. Here’s a mild posting:
When it comes to
television news coverage of the war in
Iraq, I'm torn between
which stations should be my default.
MSNBC
is typically the last one I'll turn to (not counting the networks), simply
because I think they lack the necessary embedded reporters and good
analysts. CNN, meanwhile,
always seems to get scooped by
Fox News on all the
breaking news. That's why, despite its atrocious sensationalist approach to
news, Fox is my preferred station. They have more fingers through Iraq and
the Middle East (especially when you consider their sister station Sky
News), and simply get news to people quicker than all the rest.
And check out these “interesting
posters”.
* Nuclear physicist
David Heddle hasn’t been posting much recently at
He Lives. He tells us,
enigmatically: “Been travelling related to work and current world events -
should be home tomorrow, posts to resume next week.”
The blog remains
popular, due, I suspect, to his excellent recent series of postings on
postmillennialism. (He writes: “Hopefully I can complete this series before
it is ‘truly’ postmillennial”.)
* Jake Rinard’s
new blog is off to a flying start.
Check out his list of 10 things to consider when voicing an opinion on the
war. (Number Seven: “Even if you are anti-war, you are still an "infidel",
and Bin Laden wants you dead, too.”)
* Macker at
pray naked experience is
moved to prayer:
prayer for the dogs of peace
are you as drawn to the media coverage of the war as you are repulsed by it?
I could not speak last night, I was so angry at one point when nbc announced
planned military actions that were yet to unfold.
I share
rachel's dread. and
irene's numbness. it is surreal to watch, bizarre to imagine we are at
war.
again.
I remember being at
church the night the first gulf war began, and the announcement that we had
commenced military action came down just as we started the prayer time.
all we could do was
pray. and pray some more. probably the most sombre, heartfelt, real
church service I have ever attended.
* Amy Welborn’s
In Between Naps is, typically,
excellent. She picks up what others miss. Recent postings are on three
Missionaries of Charity who run an orphanage in Baghdad, on military
chaplains and on a military unit in
Iraq
who believe they are receiving divine assistance.
And this:
Did anyone else blog
this? Surely they did. Am I just hopelessly behind these days?
Michael Moore says that you can blame his Oscar speech on the fact that he
went to Mass in the morning.
April 1st, 2003
