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Here's a recap on who we are (were) and what we are (were) doing. (Read More)
FrontLine Dispatch is the work of Kenneth Todd Ruiz in documenting his life as an expat journalist. During late 2001 and early 2002, it served as the "weblog" (proto-blog) of the "FrontLine Media Team" of Adam Prentiss and Kenneth Todd Ruiz. It plugged its readers into the sights, sounds, and stories from the various exotic locales we operated from. Hopefully your experience through us as an armchair (or deskchair) participant will provide some insight into a borderless world.
The original "Statement of Intent:"
It has been much celebrated that the world is now such a "smaller place" due to the prevalance and immediacy of communications technology. However this very availability of disconnected perceptions and disassociated memes has served to saturate people with wildly inaccurate information that forms the basis for increasingly irrational perspectives. Media medication has anesthetized our drive to explore and discover independantly. Previous generations possessed a worldliness born of first-hand experience whereas we have become passive consumers of global events, international news, and foreign cultures. While agreeably digesting context-deficient yet verisimilar factoids and soundbytes, we have found comfort in avoiding our responsibility to critical thought. We have surrendered to the convenience of a world explainably non-complex, free from the inconvenience of cognitive dissonance. Our major sources of information are designed to require the mental capacity of a child. The sheer abundance of immaterial information people are subjected to has helped render many of them irrational misinformed idiots.
The FrontLine Media team are individuals who always found the "popular consensus" to be suspect. We go to those places that exist to you only as hazy bullet-pointed lists of names, places, and police actions. We will strive to channel to you, our dear vicarious adventurers, unmitigated, forceful accounts of what we find there. [Ed. note: and hopefully not this dry]
Although this site is a nary a whimper compared to the carpet-bombing, daisy-cutting, bunker-busting institutions of contemporary MEDIA, hopefully we will offer something worthwhile, maybe something "new" to the target-rich environment of your mind.
We hope you will enjoy the site.
The Frontline team.
Addendum: For an overview/intro to the site's features, please read this.
todd
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freelance journalist and International Playperson. An appetite for travel and investigative pursuits planted the kernel that became the FrontLine Media Team and the 2000-2002 operations. Currently in So-Cal finishing journo degree.
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Adam Prentiss holds a Film Studies BA as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Currently living in guest houses across South East Asia, Adam has resided for the past month in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He has been frequenting Afghanistan to document the local situation. Last known job was teaching Digital Art and Theoretical Approaches to Visual Literacy at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Primary aspirations include finding a sound board with quarter inch jacks. Often heard saying, "I just want to plug in." Known affectionately on the front as Unhndled_Excption.
[Ed. Note: update your bio, bro]
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charles
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In a world of intractable rationalism and over-specialization, Charles is our personal Sorcerer. As if maintaining the tech infrastructure back home (an apache server in todd's closet), processing images for the media archive (MediatedMedia.com), handling press inquiries, and functioning as team representative were not enough, Charles also keeps a full-time job on the side that actually pays him.
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