If you want to see the potential of blogging a MUST MUST MUST READ is THIS POST from Mark In Mexico about police breaking up a teachers’ stike in Oaxaca, Mexico.
This is a MUST read for:
We had this link on hand for the past week but were unable to get to it due to logistics which put our own personal blogging schedule way behind by nearly a week.
This post is what blogging can be. It’s not just an extended op-ed piece. It’s ORIGINAL information, ORIGINAL reporting, analysis that is more than just attacking and demonizing other blogs or bloggers because they disagree, and photography that clearly shows there was an element of personal risk.
Want a blogging role model? Look at this post. Then look at it again.
Really great post!
A great feature of TMV is the wide diversity of links …
Yup. That is an unmitigatedly great post; you OCCASIONALLY see things of this quality in magazines… but not often enough. This was supposed to be a more regular feature of “citizen jouranlism”, but when we do see it, we can just admire it.
Thanks, Joe, for bringing it to our attention.
And of course The Talking Dog regularly does superb original reporting on his site! LOTS of it (he puts most of us to shame).
Explain to me just why do we recognize the Mexican government?