Rockin' the Global Media

So here’s a phone call from a friend who needs help from the big guns: Can I please call One Man in Baghdad for a favor? The friend’s childhood friend’s parents are stuck in Beirut and frightened as hell. They’ve been standing in lines for eight hours at a time, in the broiling sun, 70-year-old stroke survivors, American citizens. Each time, they are sent home to their war-weary house.

Within three minutes, I’m on the IM line to OMIB, and he has immediately sicked his Beirut correspondents on it. Apparently, they are already on this evacuation morass like parakeets on power lines. Thank you OMIB. Power of the press, people, continue to believe in the power of the press.