The Lodi Press Recognizes Bloggers
With this week’s big story about a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist training camp uncovered in Lodi, California, The Lodi News-Sentinel reports: “As news of the arrests of four men in Lodi spread this week, World Wide Web logs, or blogs, which often view the day’s news through highly opinionated lenses, were quick to post items on the arrests.”
“Highly opinionated?” Who? Us?
“Reactions from the ‘Blogosphere’” include:
“It looks like Al-Qaeda picked Lodi as a West Coast base of operations,” read one post from the California Mafia Web site.
At The Jawa Report, the author says the arrests “puts a whole new meaning on that CCR song” referring to the Creedence Clearwater Revivial song “Stuck in Lodi.”
The post goes on to say that one of the more worrisome aspects of the story is that a few of the men arrested were in the process of setting up a religious school. (The FBI has reported that the men overseeing the Farooqia Islamic Center on Lower Sacramento Road were being held on administrative immigration holds.)
At the CaliforniaConservative site, a post on the news referred to a al-Qaida’s “Camp Lodi” and at Rand Holman’s The Daily Polemic, the author states he’s “more convinced than ever that Al Qaeda has indeed made a determined effort to plant operatives in the United States as American citizens.”
According to the site http://hyscience.typepad.com/ the arrests in Lodi are “just a tip of the iceberg” of al-Qaida’s efforts to “destroy American and European freedoms as we know them.”
Blogger La Shawn Barber puts a link to a news article on the arrests in a post on his site that calls for an end to all immigration.
Thanks to the Lodi News-Sentinel staff for picking up on our “reporting.”
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June 9th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
wow
This is just cool
June 9th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
Uh…someone should tell them that LaShawn Barber is a her, not a him.
:)
June 9th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
Roger L. Simon, Call Your Office
Looks to me like the Lodi Press is a natural customer for Pajamas Media….
June 9th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
The Lodi Arrests: “Reactions from the ‘Blogosphere’”
Hyscience, Jawa Report, California Conservative, The Daily Polemic, and La Shawn Barber were mentioned in “al-Qaeda” Camp Lodi’s local print media today.
June 11th, 2005 at 10:19 am
On the suspected Lodi, CA terror cell story, the MSM has actually recognized some terrific bloggers, including . . ?
Thanks again to California Conservative for spotting the News-Sentinel story, and to its author, Stephanie Jucar, as well as the contributions from Layla Bohm and Andrew Adams.
December 19th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
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December 19th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
haha great! I must show that to my friend :D