Journalism will again become what it was more than a century ago - a form of art. -Chris Hedges
Thirty-something Brooklynite, self-professed news-junkie and author Sarah Glidden laments that Iraq has become "yesterday's news," which editors now treat like yesterday's bread - a stale subject. While the troops' boots remain on the ground, foreign media bureaus - what's left of them - are in exodus and, thus, the continuing occupation of Iraq has steadily retreated from the headlines and into the backwaters of the paper, lost to microscopic print somewhere near a full page Macy's spread, the final destination before disappearing entirely. Glidden couldn't stand to be an idle bystander, watching from the safe distance of Internet Explorer as the story of the Iraqi occupation slowly died, the stories of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation consigned to footnotes in a future history text to be ignored by future college students.
So, Glidden decided to take the news into her own hands. With no promise of funding and "no training in journalism at all," Glidden, author of the graphic travel memoir "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less," was determined to shed light on the all but ignored stories of the nearly two million Iraqis who fled to Syria in the eight years since the war began. She dipped into her savings and went on a fundraising campaign at Kickstarter to subsidize the trip - over 80 individuals supported her, some donating as little as $10 for her journey.
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