Anna, these posts of yours are eye-opening. I get to know what being in a modern war means through a source much more trustworthy and matter-of-fact than any news reportage. These are the sort of writings history is made of. I only wish there was no need for them.
Thanks, as ever! The other day I had a journalist snap at me for saying my blog offers insights the media doesn't. I think she mistook my meaning: not that the media is doing a bad job but that I can be, as you say 'matter of fact' in a way that isn't open to people writing articles that need a beginning, an end and a take-home message. I doubt history will find me, but I want to offer as much as I can to people who find me now.
To begin with, the "news" tend to inform about , so to speak, an overview of the situation. The individuals and small groups often are a sort of click-bait (I do not mean in a bad way!), as an illustration, as a starting point, then the aim is raised and widened: this is also necessary, but you bring about a different, more minute sort of information, which is harder for the public to find around.
Secondly, as a historian I can tell you that you would be surprised with how little history does *not* find =)
Anna, these posts of yours are eye-opening. I get to know what being in a modern war means through a source much more trustworthy and matter-of-fact than any news reportage. These are the sort of writings history is made of. I only wish there was no need for them.
Thanks, as ever! The other day I had a journalist snap at me for saying my blog offers insights the media doesn't. I think she mistook my meaning: not that the media is doing a bad job but that I can be, as you say 'matter of fact' in a way that isn't open to people writing articles that need a beginning, an end and a take-home message. I doubt history will find me, but I want to offer as much as I can to people who find me now.
To begin with, the "news" tend to inform about , so to speak, an overview of the situation. The individuals and small groups often are a sort of click-bait (I do not mean in a bad way!), as an illustration, as a starting point, then the aim is raised and widened: this is also necessary, but you bring about a different, more minute sort of information, which is harder for the public to find around.
Secondly, as a historian I can tell you that you would be surprised with how little history does *not* find =)