I think I did it!!!!

I think it was my letter to the Editor..

Published on August 1, 2005 By ShadowWar In War on Terror

I think I made a difference finally in all my letter writing and web blogging. On June 28th I posted this article: Link and also July 19th this one Link which clearly outline the misleading information that people were being fed by my local paper The Gainesville Sun ( Link) I wrote letters to the Sun and to its parent paper, the New York Times. I also sent e-mails to the AP and its staff. I tried to find out why this misinformation was going on.

Then today it happened. I was sitting and reading my paper this morning before work, like I always do and saw an article titled "U.S. urges Iraq to finalize charter", an AP story. And there in the storys space was the insert/blurb that I had seen before and gotten so insensed about before. But there was something different this time. The insert, all in bold print read like this "As of Sunday, at least 1,794 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Associated Press count." Then added onto that, which has not appeared before was this in regular print "At least 1,382 died as a result of hostile action."

Was this addition there because they got caught and did not want it to become a story in and of itself? I like to think that my rants, and I am sure others like me, made them realize that the average Joe sees through the misleading and faulty information they like to use to mislead the American Public and the world for that matter.

Thank you to the Gainesville Sun for seeing the light of truth and for changing the way they report the deaths in Iraq. You have restored a little of my faith in your paper. Not much, but at least some.

Comments

Moderateman

on Aug 01, 2005

one man/woman still can make a difference, glad to see you excersising your right of dissent and some progress made.

SATYROBE

on Aug 01, 2005

8,722 visitors, 1 comment. Or I dont see other comments before posting mine. Tragic, unbelievable or site issue. Me curious. Some articles give good info making people read and run. Hmm No, when I entered till hmm, no more comments showed cepting MMs. Well I like + respect the few things I know by u and am aware you are top 10. Sometimes it feels like some can make comments visible to different audiences than the article. Mystery, still learning. U sure did not need my comment for points

ShadowWar

on Aug 01, 2005

SATYROBE,

Thats to my blog. All of my blog, its home page count.

not this one article.

SATYROBE

on Aug 01, 2005

Gee thanks, fastest explanation in the west. Thought I had a fast new wireless card. Urs might have built in telepathy or psychic addon. Awesome! Even with watchlist, better copy ur e-mail system too. 10 seconds for response. Definitely no issue, good. Also makes me realize how much faster watchlist helps if e-mail goes to ur pc instead of ur phone companies server. 1st reason I had for a long time to get that changed, maybe

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