Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, January 31, 2011

Boarding Pass

John found this at Amos Masala's blog.


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Listening this afternoon to Al Jazeera on linees English live feed I get the impression that Egypt made a mistake arresting six of their journalists this morning and confiscating their equipment. The announcer has made reference to that development more than once over the last hour. Lacking any other content they are left replaying old footage (or the undramatic webcam shot of Tahrir Square at night) while carrying on a lively discussion with a variety of talking heads and telephone guests. They seems to be pulling no punches or spiinning the news to make the regime look better.


Tweet Ali Abdel Wahab, a neighborhood security volunteer speaking from a location other than Tahrir Square, said several thousand pro-Mubarak demonstrators are currently also assembling, planning to make their way to the square as well.  Pictures of that crowd are being broadcast on State TV and Al Jazeersa dutifully showed that feed as well for a few minutes, followed immediately with a slide show of dramatic images from the day before.


 



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