Friday, April 18, 2008

Berkeley, Egypt, and Journalism students

Anybody else see the delicious irony in this situation. A journalism student from the University of CA at Berkeley was arrested in Egypt while trying to photograph a demonstration. He has been released but look at the advice he was given from some of his Egyptian friends.
In the meantime, his Egyptian friends, mostly anti-government bloggers, sent him advice, telling him to stay calm and to be an "American bitch."

The student in question is James Karl Buck, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. I wonder if he was looking for some Marines, or did he see the irony of what Code Pink is doing at home versus his experience.
Unfortunately some of life's best lessons are lost on the people of Berkeley.

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