War News Radio

[war, mp3]

The New Yorker's Talk of the Town had an amazing article about a
group of students at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania), who had a
brilliant idea - "when you find the media’s Iraq coverage unsatisfactory, pick up the phone." Don’t call the Times, or CNN, FOXNews; call Baghdad.

And thus War News Radio was born.

With Iraqi phone books available on the Internet, they found no shortage of people willing to share their stories directly, many of them speaking decent English. When the phone bill started to get out of hand, they switched to Skype (The sound quality via Skype is often better than what can be achieved over the weak landlines in the Green Zone.)

WNR is currently on holiday and is scheduled to resume 'broadcasting' on 20 January 2006.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051226ta_talk_mcgrath
http://www.warnewsradio.org/show/