I WAS JUST ON LOCAL TV in response to this piece of mine criticizing the media for not reporting the background of A.N.S.W.E.R. It wasn’t bad, though I stressed that my beef was with A.N.S.W.E.R., not with people protesting and that only sort of came through in the coverage — the sound bite they chose might have given the impression that I thought the local protesters supported Saddam and Kim Jong Il, when I was really talking about A.N.S.W.E.R. Oh, well. I think the TV folks tried not to muddy my message, but it’s hard in a three minute piece. That’s the trouble with talking to the media. They didn’t use my best soundbite, which really sums up my take on the issue: “You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”

One interesting thing is that they ran video supplied by the local protesters, who took a camera with them. This whole guerrilla media thing is really taking off.