Matty & me in the Grauniad?

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

Not the first place I'd look for quotes from the likes of us, the Guardian is the leftest of the Brit papers. But they were having fun with the milblog censoring brouhaha and so we get this:

Soldiers in the field and former soldiers, in blogs posted on sites such as Black Five, an unofficial site run by former paratrooper Matthew Burden, said the regulations would be inoperable with most troops obeying the rules but dissidents finding ways round the ban.

Mr Burden, editor of The Blog of War, a book pulling together accounts from the field, also criticised the decision: "No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This is the best PR the military has - its most honest voice out of the war zone. And it's being silenced."

Soldiers at bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, often bored, spend lots of time on the internet. One posting to Black Five, from Uncle Jimbo, described the Pentagon's move as "an incandescently stupid decision of the military to allow the anal-retentive, mistake-avoidance police have their way".

And it added : "It's not like we aren't already getting our asses kicked in the information war. Now let's take the one authentic voice, the one group best able to tell the real story and let's shut 'em down. Fools!"

Matty sounds learned and proper and they picked some characteristically level-toned rhetoric from me. It's not just that I'm horrendously vain, but I'm trolling for a cushy gig as some MSM group's house hawkish libertarian. How'm I doin' so far?

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Matty & me in the Grauniad?

Not the first place I'd look for quotes from the likes of us, the Guardian is the leftest of the Brit papers. But they were having fun with the milblog censoring brouhaha and so we get this:

Soldiers in the field and former soldiers, in blogs posted on sites such as Black Five, an unofficial site run by former paratrooper Matthew Burden, said the regulations would be inoperable with most troops obeying the rules but dissidents finding ways round the ban.

Mr Burden, editor of The Blog of War, a book pulling together accounts from the field, also criticised the decision: "No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This is the best PR the military has - its most honest voice out of the war zone. And it's being silenced."

Soldiers at bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, often bored, spend lots of time on the internet. One posting to Black Five, from Uncle Jimbo, described the Pentagon's move as "an incandescently stupid decision of the military to allow the anal-retentive, mistake-avoidance police have their way".

And it added : "It's not like we aren't already getting our asses kicked in the information war. Now let's take the one authentic voice, the one group best able to tell the real story and let's shut 'em down. Fools!"

Matty sounds learned and proper and they picked some characteristically level-toned rhetoric from me. It's not just that I'm horrendously vain, but I'm trolling for a cushy gig as some MSM group's house hawkish libertarian. How'm I doin' so far?

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