Shooting War

It's five o'clock in the morning. I've been up for a couple of hours ... no an unusual set of circumstances. The usual drill is to bring up my news reader and skim the headlines, looking for something interesting to share. This morning brought something quite interesting.



Shooting War
A graphic novel by Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman

The year is 2011 and the situation in Baghdad hasn't improved. President McCain is still occupying Iraq, a mushroom cloud just rose over India and the network news is as news-less as ever. Enter 25-year-old Jimmy Burns, a 25-year-old New York City hipster with bad facial hair and a porn habit, who prompts the questions: what is journalism and what is a journalist?

Less a comment on the never ending war than it is a comment on how the news is manipulated.

The web version of the graphic novel is a beta version of the book. There are enough plot twists to keep you "turning pages". It's an interesting perspective, to say the least. It even has at least one reference to my favorite terrorist, Milton Freedman. My opinion? highly recommended and I'm not all that big on graphic novels.

Welcome to 2011; Welcome to Baghdad and who's zoomin' who?.