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It's such a failure of our newsmedia that the first we hear of a conflict is after the first bombs drop. #Georgia #Russia #Ossetia

August 8, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Michael R. Bernstein, Lora Lufark, Stephen Pierzchala and 11 other people liked this

I agree. I knew things have been "tense" for sometime but an actual shooting war? Wow, that was a surprise. - Steve

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give them time they are all focused on #080808. They can not be as agile as us. How can they follow the cloud, when the cloud doesn't know where it is going yet. - Jonathan Ferguson

Isn't anyone thinking of the CELEBRITIES? Damn news media! - abacab

But that's when it's sensational... - Clay Newton

the problems Georgia and Russia have been well know for awhile , ever since the Rose Revolution. Kinda why Georgia wants to join NATO , so Russia doesn't invade them....... oh wait - Carl Backstrom

Looks like we are back into 19th century "spheres of influence" politics. You'd think after the Cold-War everything would have been peachy. - Stephen James

Its also funny that twitter reports are faster than the AP now. - The Dude Dean

The Dude - that's nothing new. A mailing list I was on heard about 9/11 before the media did. - Earle Martin

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