Sunday, June 10, 2007

Make Your Own Media

left: Saddam post-hanging

Whether you realize it or not, everything you see on TV and read about in national newspapers concerning Iraq and Afghanistan is strictly filtered by governments and media executives. The bleached images we see, images devoid of bloody details, don't accurately represent the horrific realities of war. The articles we read from journalists embedded with troops are censored and sterilized before they are authorized for print.

This website hopes to fill in some of the gaps. Soldiers post videos of what they see on the ground. Insurgents post videos of tanks and vehicles being attacked with IEDs and rockets. Check it out now while you still can--it will only be a matter of time before soldiers and insurgents alike will be prohibited from posting graphic video like this onto the Internet.

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