{"id":1285,"date":"2006-12-13T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-12-14T00:13:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T00:13:49","slug":"a_million_point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"A Million Points Of Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the Huffington Post<\/a> (yes, I do read a broad assortment of stuff, why do you ask?) journalist\/writer Mona Gable – who LA Observed<\/a> describes as “Gable has written for Health, Child, Salon and the Los Angeles Times, where her husband Joel Sappell is the assistant managing editor for interactive.<\/i>” – has kittens when the military has the temerity to send marketing materials to her teenage son.<\/p>\n

A few days after 11 American soldiers were killed in Iraq, I opened the mailbox to find along with the Pottery Barn holiday catalogue and other seasonal items a letter from the National Guard. Addressed to my 16-year-old son. I have no idea how they got his name and address. That’s not true.
\nI know perfectly well how they got it. They got it the same way Bush is getting personal information about the rest of us in the guise of fighting “the terrorists.” They tapped into some secret database and up popped my son’s name. It was right there under the category: Potential Cannon Fodder for Iraq.<\/p>\n

\nI felt like I’d been sent a letter bomb in the mail.<\/p>\n

\nThis administration has no respect for families. It never has. Why else did Bush with the eager support of the Senate ban news photos of flag-draped coffins of soldiers coming home? Many of them as young as 18. Did they think we wouldn’t notice the rising death toll? That families who lost sons and daughters would simply view it as the regrettable cost of war? Pretend it had all been a bad dream and then carry on? Not talk about it? <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And people wonder how it is that some of us worry that the media are culturally incapable of dealing with war, or with the military.<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, it’s only one – more – anecdotal point of data. Sorry for reading too much into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another small window into the culture of journalism was opened today…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}