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There’s a good reason why I try to avoid reporting on hard news events<\/a> in the Iraq War — the normal fog of war is both eased and exacerbated by instant communications from the field, and via the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a good reason why I try to avoid reporting on hard news events in the Iraq War — the normal fog of war is both eased and exacerbated by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3825,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/24\/the_french_touc.html","url_meta":{"origin":3790,"position":0},"title":"The French Touch","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Mar-03 10:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an interesting article about German and French broadcasters running into difficulty aligning their Iraq war coverage with their state-sponsored editorial viewpoint. 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