I’m about to go on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation. Today’s hourlong program is about war news: the conflict in the Middle East and the Iraq war, and I’ll be coming in to discuss citizen journalism and user-created videos from the scenes of the carnage.
I’ll post a link to the podcast when it goes up.
Later: OK, my segment’s over now. It’s been an interesting discussion, especially given that Talk of the Nation is what I consider the premier talk radio show anywhere.
I ran out of time so didn’t get to say this: You have to wonder if the Vietnam war would have gone on for 12 years if the Internet had been around. There would have been a much more realistic view of what the battlefield feels like, and public opinion may well have hardened against the war had we seen the carnage being wreaked on that small nation.
Still later: The podcast is up: An Online View of War in the Middle East. (Click on the Listen button.) Pretty interesting discussion, actually.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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