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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Our "allies" in Pakistan

(NYTimes) "The Bush administration plans to shift nearly $230 million in aid to Pakistan from counterterrorism programs to upgrading that country’s aging F-16 attack planes...."

(CNN/AP) Pakistan has sent an official letter to 50 nations threatening a nuclear arms race if India is granted the US nuclear deal.

posted by mikevotes at 7:20 AM

5 Comments:

  • One would only wish these two stories were on the same newspaper page.

    Which is one of the gripes I'm starting to have about internet news reporting -- stories are context-less. They seem to stand alone, like a picture on a wall, when of course they don't. Every story is intimately connected with a dozen others.

    I would wish for a greater link-ability, somehow, like a list of related stories underneath a main article. Probably too much to ask of the interweb.

    By Blogger r8r, at 1:03 PM  

  • Well, the real news sites, BBC, NYTimes, etc usually have a little box with their last few stories on whatever the topic is, but that's only theirs, and it tends to miss the sort of cross viewpoint context your talking about.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:11 PM  

  • I think people who get their news from the internet tend to be the kind who do their own research. There's plenty of info on Pakistan for instance...only a click or two away.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:24 PM  

  • Yeah, the one trick is, you have to find some track record of credibility if you get outside the mainstream news sources.

    I'm not necessarily the most credible in my analysis, but the links are always to very solid sources.

    I figure that's the bread and butter people come by for, and then they take my analysis for what it is.

    All I'm really after is to point to stuff I think is important, spawn thoughts, not educate, not convert.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:38 PM  

  • Very true Mike....there's no shortage of flakes out there. You do a good job sorting the wheat from the chaff.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:52 PM  

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