Megan McArdle: The Horror, the horror
Well what I think ... wait, this is obligatory:
Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.
Okay. What I think is that the production of the video is clumsy. It reinforces existing prejudices and assumptions and doesn't do anything to get someone from the wrong [1] side to re-consider their their point of view.
The KGB would have done a better job at agitprop, frankly. Maybe next time they can do better.
[1] You know - the baby-killing pro-war machine side.
I'm still not quite sure what to say about the now infamous video of pilots in Iraq shooting down a group of people, two Reuters cameramen among them.
Mostly what I think at this point is that the video is considerably more ambiguous than the editorializing from Wikileaks suggests.
Well what I think ... wait, this is obligatory:
Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.
Okay. What I think is that the production of the video is clumsy. It reinforces existing prejudices and assumptions and doesn't do anything to get someone from the wrong [1] side to re-consider their their point of view.
The KGB would have done a better job at agitprop, frankly. Maybe next time they can do better.
[1] You know - the baby-killing pro-war machine side.
