TNR: There Goes That Rationalization

Unless I missed it, TNR seems to have gone dark on the Beauchamp affair, again. In any event, I watched Band of Bloggers on the History Channel tonight - they have a website here

The History Channel wants to capture what it's really like to be a soldier. We're launching a new website showcasing first person experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan and all other American wars.

and then I remembered reading this once at TNR.

Over the course of the war, we have tried to provide our readers with a sense of Iraq as it is seen by the troops. Usually, these stories have been written by journalists who have traveled to Iraq and interviewed soldiers there, but last January Beauchamp sent us a first-person vignette that seemed a powerful contribution to the genre.

There are any number of milblogs at milblogging dot com, the History Channel had any number of blog excerpts in their segment and many of the bloggers on film, in interviews and on the ground in Iraq. And the best TNR could do was the husband of a staffer with a fabulist streak?

Lastly, did they ever once link to one of the popularly read milbogs in their quest to provide ... readers with a sense of Iraq as it is seen by the troops, particularly since the Beachamp affair? Or have they given up on that mission, as well? Hmm.

Comments

[Snooper]

BINGO!! I loved this line...

"...And the best TNR could do was the husband of a staffer with a fabulist streak?..."

That right there is a classic!!

[Kaitian]

I'm fine with the History Channel playing a segment on this because they've broadcasted alot of shows like Dogfight, Modern Marvels, etc which have had no political aim whatsoever and got right to the point. TNR on the other hand tried to brand troops as maligned, not caring, etc with an anti-war aim which they don't want to admit. The crap that Beauchamp gave them was too good for them, they bit on it hook, line, sinker. Especially with shows that failed for example by F/X, "Over There" which was a bunch of crap, full of lame clichés, and, just plain dumb when the directors claimed at the time "it is a no BS show". History should be able to do this just fine in the same style the Military Channel does it.

[JustADude]

STB did to TNR what he does for his wife at home in bed and they are just beginning to realize it.

[Fred Beloit]

Speaking of the bad news bears reporters, there is some good news from Afghanistan. You will notice Purp was already there, at the blog that is.

http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2007/11/progress.html