State Dept. offers up new blog, alternative to MSM. Trust them!

[babylonsister]

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From the State Department, All the News for Inquiring Minds

By Al Kamen
Wednesday, October 3, 2007; Page A21

Fox News, launched with such high hopes 11 years ago as the "fair and balanced" network, apparently hasn't lived up to its billing. CNN never had a chance. The other networks? Please. No citizen could dare trust the agenda-driven print media -- The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times -- to figure out, let alone accurately tell, the "real" story.

But now the State Department is in the blogosphere, and says it "offers the public an alternative source to mainstream media for U.S. foreign policy information." The blog, launched last week and called "Dipnote," is "taking you behind the scenes."

This is what we've all been waiting for! No more media filters and distortions. Unbiased news directly from the federal government, a news source long noted for truthful, unbiased reporting. The Clinton administration and most all its predecessors vowed to end-run the media, and they finally have the new electronic media to help them to do it.

One of the first diplo-bloggers last week was the assistant secretary for international organizations, Kristen Silverberg, who blogged from the United Nations.

"Another busy day in New York!" she gushed Tuesday. ("I'm exhausted!" she wrote in a later dispatch that day.) "First thing this morning, President Bush met with President Karzai" to discuss progress in Afghanistan.

"We have a lot of hope," she wrote, "for the future of Afghanistan," where child mortality has declined 20 percent in the past five years and 80 percent of the public has access to basic health care and "primary school enrollment for both boys and girls has increased by five hundred percent over the past five years."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202033.html?hpid=sec-politics

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. FINALLY! A reliable, unbiased source...

For government propaganda. I don't know whether to be laugh or cry that the Junta isn't even bothering to hide behind semi-legitimate media anymore. Is this a sign of desperation, or extreme confidence?

[Karmageddon]

2. Appropriately named: "Dip"note

[EFerrari]

3. Day In Propaganda

lol

[Bolo Boffin]

4. Yes, what were they thinking?

Actually, it's State Department slang for "diplomatic note."

"Diplomacy" would have been a better name for the blog. That would have been elegant. But, oh, no, not George Bush's State Department.

That said, it's going to be interesting. The blogposts have comment ability. You too can spam the State Department! I wonder how long THAT's going to last.

[Karmageddon]

5. Maybe they used the shortened name because Bush's State Dept can't spell "diplomacy"

I do look forward to leaving comments though.

Question: which is the better option, letting the the dogs out, or slamming the door in their faces when the men in black suits come to talk to me about my comments?