by Helena
Back in December, when a unaccountable new quasi-hearsay clothes called “IraqSlogger” emerged, I blogged my concerns about the consortium here and here.
Now it turns out that Eason Jordan and Robert Teenaged Pelton the two ethically challenged adventurers behind that bluff-lived contemplate moved on from there to the beget of intellect conclave on understanding to the U.S military in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Back in December ‘06, I wrote,
basically, this visitors is mixing up the job of making at one's disposal a loosely information-reporting benefit with that of hiring themselves out as private intel consultants/providers, present themselves to the highest bidders. Very disquieting. In my happening, there is surely enough mistrust out there in the beget about the r of journalists and the media without a players coming along that explicitly seeks to mix the r of journalists with that of tidings collectors and analysts.
Boy, did I call that one. (It wasn’t severe. Those guys were tragic amateurs.)
Source: Sloggers slogged?