Ok, someone pleae help...

[ninkasi]

I've mentioned on several occasions that I am completely internet user challenged. I was reading Buzzflash earlier today, and there's an article from The Toronto Star talking about the U.S. press amnesia, the articles written building up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, stuff we've talked about and discussed.
In this article, it mentions DU, and although they don't name him, Skinner's search of the phrase," a recent surge in violence", and how many times it was used. It also mentioned similiar phrases.

Can someone here help an internet idiot by starting a post, and giving the link? If you go to Buzzflash, you'll see the article. We all know Skinner's great...now they know it in Canada, too.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Can you remember the title of the article?

[Canuckistanian]

3. I found it

Here's the link:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142894779554&call_page=TS_Entertainment&call_pageid=968867495754&call_pagepath=A&E/News&pubid=968163964505

[Canuckistanian]

5. And here's the quote from the article

Consider a little nugget unearthed by Democratic Underground. News reports about Iraq continuously resort to the phrase "a recent surge in violence" — as if, all of a sudden out of nowhere in a peaceful and happy land, somebody started shooting. As if tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians haven't been killed or maimed — and thousands of American troops been made casualties.

I checked it out on the Dow-Jones database, and came up with a minimum of 152 cases of "a recent surge of violence" in Iraq since Bush did his "Mission Accomplished" strut in 2003. And that doesn't count variations of the phrase, such as "a recent wave of violence" or "a recent increase in violence."

That's in print alone. One can only imagine the count for TV.

[unhappycamper]

2. Here's your link:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142894779554&call_page=TS_Entertainment&call_pageid=968867495754&call_pagepath=A&E/News&pubid=968163964505

Peace.

[yewberry]

4. That was EarlG's article

and you can view it (and his update) in his journal:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/EarlG/13

Yay, EarlG!

[ninkasi]

8. I apologize to EarlG, then!

And thanks to ya'll for providing the link. I'm embarrassed, though, that I forgot which of our admins had the idea and checked it. This is the second article I've seen about that phrase recently. I've forgotten the other source.

[LaurenG]

6. Cool! nt

[supernova]

7. Nevermind

:-)

[Lars39]

9. To post a link,

you click on the article, then go to the very top and put your pointer in the address bar.
Right click, then click on "copy".
Then,right click in the message box of a thread you've started, or in a reply to someone else,
and click "paste".

To check to make sure you have the correct link posted, click on the preview button, then click on the link you posted.
Hope this helps. :hi:

[ninkasi]

10. Thanks!

Techno dummy here...:dunce: