I just received an email from a newspaper reporter in upstate NY asking about a Michael Crook, who has recently gained a bit of notoriety on the Internet and around Syracuse for his "Forsake the Troops" web site, which attacks the U.S. military. Last month, he made the rounds of national radio talk shows and appeared on the Hannity & Colmes show on Fox News Network. It seems that Mr Cook's resume claims a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the New Jersey college where I teach. My program is Communication Studies and to the best of my knowledge we have never had a degree in Broadcast Journalism.
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I commended the reporter for doing some investigation and said that this day and age of news organizations that run with a story before checking facts I have seen groups like Communists for Kerry (really some Republicans), Billionaires for Bush (I could not figure out if they were Democrats or anarchists), and recently a young republican group on a college campus running an fake anti-war rally, it is great that we have some journalists like him to follow up on a story such as this.
Anybody familiar with Forsake the Troops and Mr. Cook?