Al Jazeera office about to be inundated by blank books
In a misguided but helpless gesture, some bloggers have come up with a way to "support" a captured American journalist: send lots of blank books to the Qatar office of Al Jazeera. The hapless Arab journalists are then supposed to "convey" a message to the woman's captors.
First, I feel sorry for the poor admin at that office who has to open all those packages and store all those blank books -- of all sizes -- until they figure out what to do with them. But mostly, I can't figure out what practical purpose this could accomplish.
Let's suppose the Qatar office of Al Jazeera does exactly what they're asking them to do: It broadcasts a news story that says, "We received all these blank books with a message about freeing Jill Carroll. We appeal to our brothers to release her." Then what happens? Nothing that wouldn't have happened before, but the Qatar office of Al Jazeera now has a storage problem. Perhaps they'll donate these books to a school or something.
But a bunch of Americans did something, that's the important part!
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