by ir » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:54 am
recently, and I believe it was following a post I wrote in my blog about PROMIS, i had some 5 new subscribers to my blog, of the kind I am not used to (namely, people of some power, like "mainstream" people, not the usual crowd of misfits and paranoids - that I am used to and got to like). The next day, I killed the post, because I felt it was too scary to leave it in the air. The next day I receive a short email from a fairly known msm journalist, actualy one of the "nice guys" of msm, leftie type who is also working for the local equivalent of PBS cable TV. He jus wrote "what a cool blog", as in compliment, we kind of ping ponged and then he wrote "do you believe in conspiracies ? do you think there was one in the case of the Trojan Horse ? (that's our local version of "the magic software" affair and criminal investigation). I ducked the issues and kind of diverted the exchange to a casual chat on life. to sum up the exchange he wrote - there are no conspiracies in our society cause we have free press. And also "the kind of stuff you write here wlil not be admitted to a newspaper" (I never asked to do that...so it was weird). and that's it. I am now edgy about it. anyone had such experience while blogging?<br><br>----<br>ps, the post itself was pretty solid, I resisted the urge to deal with the Israeli part, just a general description of the issue and links to some websites that write about it, one of them, by Ari Ben Menashe. But I didn't mention his name on the post, in Hebrew or said anything about him. I just said that too bad we get a very partial coverage in Israel to such affairs (as the "trojan horse"), because we never get to really know what poses a risk to our lives, privacy, rights. And I wondered aloud, what eventually transpired with the indictments in this case (several PI's were arrested and charged). I suppose the journalist felt it was criticising the press but I actually thought there was censorship by government. <br><br>this specific newspaper he works for, has an interesting "connection", one of the owners was married to one of the israeli players in the Irangate affair. <p></p><i></i>