Word: highlight
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...Saddam's statue fell. However, while they offer the credibility of an unvarnished image, they lack any meaningful context of what came before and after the clip, or what's happening outside the frame. One veteran described them to the Wall Street Journal as "kind of like the ESPN highlight reels - the music is pumping and everyone was running around." Another soldier told the Los Angeles Times, "If I had a copy of it, and MTV called, I'd sell it." He may yet get a chance. MTV is airing a special - "Iraq Uploaded" - about these homemade documentaries July...
...since these clips are essentially music videos. Traditionally, historians have explained soldiers' documentary efforts - letters home, snapshots - as an attempt to force a narrative onto a situation that's out of control. But these videos don't even try to tell a story. They don't need a plot. Highlight reels at least give it a point: Blow stuff...
...these dispatches lack a coherent explanation for why the bombs are going off, recall that the Bush Administration has been rather cagey about that, too. They have their own highlight reel, after all: A montage of 9/11, Colin Powell holding up a vial of anthrax, Zarqawi's death mask presented in a gilt frame on a curtained stage. There's some flashes of mortar fire, but this edit contains no footage of dead soldiers or even coffins, no images of the abuse of detainees...
...while taking potshots at any other approach. One House Republican admitted as much beforehand. Rep. Brian Bilbray, a California Republican, was part of the congressional panel at the San Diego event. In an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, Bilbray called the House hearings "a good way to highlight the problems with the Senate bill...
...saying, "We get up about 5:30 a.m. The President gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it back to me in bed. Very nice of him." The President gestured toward the journalists sweating nearby. "Record that, please," he joked. Then, in a surprise highlight to the trip, the President and First Lady, joined by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, tapped and swayed along as two dozen high-pitched singers in the Vienna Boys' Choir, which dates to 1498, performed a medley that included Johann Strauss's "On the Beautiful Blue Danube." At least...