You can lead a horse to water, OR, aim a flood to the horse

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Such good overview articles as this -- which shows the cover-up of red meat dining as the fuelfood of America's cancer epidemic -- often go by without my commenting. Which comment normally is, Hear! Hear!.

Instead of commenting to the article, I often take the article (link) to apply as a comment to someone else, who didn't see the article and might learn something, new to them. Also often, that person intends to keep themself from seeing such articles, in order to preserve a 'not-knowing' (ignorance) deliberately, and so the link I pass along is never linked and goes unread.

This time -- switcheroo -- let's see what happens if all the OpEdNews folks who read this article, here see a link to a young person who risks her health chowing down baskets of burgers, keeping reality's facts from fazing her.

She's a crime reporter at a small town newspaper. The newspaper profits on selling ad space to burgerbomb franchises; the newspaper provides her a blog space, which approximately no one reads, where she tells about her burger diet and collects all comments coming in.

So I'm curious what happens when a worldwide audience here, floods a sleepy small town naive shelter, in the internet current, with facts about fetid red meat.

Here's her magnum opus to the savor of Big Max, careful not to drip the secret sauce on her desk, reporter's notes, and keyboard, with the Whole World Watching.

DemocratHerald.com/dhblogs/carrie_petersen/?p=107#comments

And the wider scope of her rightwing non-sensibilities, kept in the artificial atmosphere of truthlessness behind the barricades against real world war crimes of the adored US Administration, at this rightwing propaganda newspaper, is on display here:

DemocratHerald.com/dhblogs/carrie_petersen/

She and other up-and-coming newspaper crime reporters might be unaware of what butcherbush police have in store for them in their careers ahead. Quite likely she was blocked from ever seeing this veteran crime reporter's eyewitness account of being tortured:

Editor's Note: This is a first-person account of Bill Lawson's arrest by a state trooper while attempting to take pictures at a house fire in Maumelle on Monday evening.

MAUMELLE -- Having lived 59 years, battled cancer, worn the country's uniform for 26 years and proudly worked as a journalist -- a profession I always admired -- I thought I'd seen it all. That is until Monday night, when I was arrested and charged with a criminal offense just for trying to do my job and take photos of a residential fire in Maumelle.

Being arrested, searched, having my camera, reporter's notebook and billfold confiscated, humiliated in front of friends and people I write about every week was a difficult way to be arrested for the first time in my life. ...

I knew I'd done nothing wrong. But I knew better than to argue with a sate [sic] trooper who obviously had an attitude. ...

That would be an Arkansas state trooper, by the way, so disconnected from human reality that he thinks militaristic fascism can block truth of Human Rights war crimes from reaching small town journalists and coming out in the paper.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 6:46:20 PM