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Pab Sungenis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 11:47 AM
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Get some real coverage of the G20: send "Why They Suck" to cover it.
one.org reports that they’re looking for bloggers to send to the G20 conference of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in London.

Instead of the usual little fluff pieces on how these high and mighty are supposedly rebuilding the international economy they stuffed down the shitter, why not get people who are going to send back real reports? Like “Neocon Social Darwinist Fuckwit Ben Bernanke: Why He Sucks?”

Go to http://www.whitebandradar.org/g20voice/nominate to nominate “Why They Suck” at http://www.whytheysuck.com to go cover this conference. It will be a nice change to have a horribly cynical bastard send back reports, unlike the little frou-frou fluff pieces that we can expect from the typical blogging community.

Go ahead, nominate them. It will be worth it to get some real news out of the thing.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 11:52 AM
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1. Idea!
Why don't we somehow fund our own bloggers to cover all proceedings?

Given that newspaper reporters are our bread and butter, and that newspaper reporters are going down with the ship, we need to think about financing our own 'free-press'.

Eh, is just an idea.
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Pab Sungenis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 12:12 PM
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2. Well, in this case
there's an organization that would be paying to do it. Hell, if I get sent for "Why They Suck," I could also blog for DU from there. I've been trained as a journalist, I could pull it off.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 12:21 PM
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3. Trained?
That might be a problem....jk.

It's what this country needs, citizen journalists. The web is the new world rag. Go for it!
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