March 31, 2003

Guardian on bloggers and Rachel Corrie's reputation.

Christian Crumlish

The Guardian looks closely at how bloggers covered the aftermath of the Rachel Corrie story, finding an unsavory pile-on in the echo chamber. Cointelpro Tool takes on this line of reasoning and finds that it echoes the Indymedia line.

Posted by xian at March 31, 2003 8:57 PM
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A poem for Rache.
[Glinda]
Come out, come out, wherever you are and meet the young lady, who fell from a star.
She fell from the sky, she fell very far and Kansas, she says, is the name of the star.

[Munchkins]
Kansas, she says, is the name of the star.

[Glinda]
She brings you good news. Or haven't you heard?
When she fell out of Kansas
A miracle occurred.

[Dorothy]
It really was no miracle. What happened was just this.
The wind began to switch - the house to pitch and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch.
Just then the Witch - to satisfy an itch went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch.

[Munchkins]
And oh, what happened then was rich.
*The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch.
It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch,
Which was not a healthy situation for the Wicked Witch.
*The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch.
It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch,
Which was not a healthy situation for the Wicked Witch.
Who began to twitch and was reduced to just a stitch of what was once the Wicked Witch.

[Munchkin #1]
We thank you very sweetly, for doing it so neatly.

[Munchkin #2]
You've killed her so completely, that we thank you very sweetly.

[Glinda]
Let the joyous news be spread, The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead!

Posted by: Bruder at March 16, 2004 7:36 PM