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whimper. everything will be okay again soon...(with the site)
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after my webhost went MIA for three days and finally returned with an old backup, i blew most of the weekend updating the backend of the site and blowing the dust off the content. most of the things that had stopped working now work again, and a few of the things that did: now don't.
the upgrade to the engine seems to be 'missing' (in an extension of the metaphor) like my old dodge colt. occasionally a page will not load - just hit refresh and it will.
if this is your first time here, be sure to check out the voluminous quantity of original content and photos from the team's misadventures in afghanstan "and beyond" in the archives
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missionless update
This site was created with the intention of disseminating original content derived from direct first-hand experience. We have received inquiries asking why we weren't discussing the latest and greatest of human potlatches in Iraq, but this site was never intended to be a soapbox for random personal opinions.
Adam's domestication in the PacificNW, and my commitment to finishing an academic degree (a necessary evil if i'm going to rub elbows with geraldo) has precluded any FLM operations at this time.
A lack of balance in the voices speaking prompts us to respond. Though small and feeble, though unsanctified by media approval, and lacking the street cred of corporate sponsorship - there are things that must be said.
[The Iraq related posts have been moved here and here.]
More, yo.
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i am loathe to post a content-less dispatch...why waste bandwidth with "sorry nothing to see here"
there WILL soon be more video logs and posts from tora bora, pakistan, india and elsewhere...
currently distracted with refamiliarizing myself with everything i find contemptuous about the [questionably] higher education system...
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while the slow intravenous drip of content barely nourishes your continued interest in the site, some time was taken to better organize the past four months worth of content, and yes, make a sexy flash navigation thing.
it saddens our inner misanthropes that you will no longer be forced to contend with the page-long mission statement, but hopefully the interminable "bleep bleep bleep" will fill its place in your spectrum of loathing.
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FrontLine Dispatch is the "weblog" of the FrontLine Media team. It will serve to plug you into the sights, sounds, and stories from the various exotic locales we are operating. Hopefully your experience through us as an armchair (or deskchair) participant will provide some insight into life apart from the narrow scope of your bourgeois, unexamined lives.
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.
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our domain hosting service seems to have dropped off entirely for the time being, around the same time i complained to them about their mail filtering.
you can ALWAYS access the site at the uglier address of:
http://216.103.52.73/frontline
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Today:
There was a time when Journalists working abroad were safe from intentional war-time threat. But in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the rules have changed. Catherine will be joined by a frontline journalist with a firsthand view of the dangers of modern war reporting.
Catherine Crier Live
Update: This will be rebroadcast at 3:30 AM I believe...check your local listings...
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for those using AOL-Time-Warner's Netscape Navigator, please accept our apologies...the site really is not supposed to look like this and didn't look like this when I left in November. Until it can be fixed, there is a simple fix, make an account here and then after logging in go here and from the drop down box select another "theme" such as "PostNuke" and all should be groovy, if thematically inaccurate.
UPDATE: Should be fixed! Let us know if it isn't!
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we would like to christen our recently opened "Downloads" section with an absolute Don Perignon of a selection, likely the sole "Download" we will produce. A desktop image intended to be tiled, it is intended as our official themed background for "India." Although we are capable of making it tile seamlessly, it's roughness lends the inexperienced "dude" quality essential to our Brand Identity. That or it was a low priority project of a long train ride. Either way, download it to see the scenery outside of, and often within urban India for yourself.
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i'm proud to announce our new live video feed. using eminently patentable technologies, we have aggregated all network news feeds into this single stream.