DJ get your gun (2003-03-28)
Radio station consultants around the country are advising their clients to make the most of the war in Iraq, according to this Washington Post article. Here's some of their advice:

"Get the following production pieces in the studio NOW: . . . Patriotic music that makes you cry, salute, get cold chills! Go for the emotion."

"If you were the upstart station in town, you might conceivably come at this from a peacenik angle by going on the air with the body count, by pointing out we haven't got Osama bin Laden or Saddam yet, by saying we should end the madness. But we find it appropriate to wave the flag where I happen to be."

"The sense is, if we give too much play to people against the war, it will hurt in the war effort and the people fighting it."

Woohoo. Love that fair and unbiased reporting.

Half an hour ago, the oil filled trenches were put on fire (2003-03-24)
That's the opening line for today's entry in the Where is Raed blog, a firsthand account of life in Baghdad under the bombs. Though writtern under the pseudonym Salaam Pax, I somehow trust this coverage more than what I'm hearing on CNN. "The whole city looked as if it were on fire," writes Pax, "The only thing I could think of was 'why does this have to happen to Baghdad.'"

It's 2003: Do You Know Where Your Rights Are? (2003-03-01)
In case you don't, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights is keeping track for you. The group recently release a report, Imbalance of Powers, documenting the U.S. government's erosion of rights in the ares of open government, privacy, immigration and criminal justice.