Jeff Jarvis on how you can help Iraq blogger Zeyad (Healing Iraq) attend CUNY�s new Graduate School of Journalism.
We are reaching out to foundations and individuals and working on scholarships and Zeyad is working to raise money. But that won�t do it all. We will. All of you inspired Zeyad to blog and give his invaluable perspective on Iraq. That inspired him to give up his career as a dentist and report for his blog as well as for NYTimes.com, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. So now I hope we will all show what the blogosphere can do and raise the funds one of our own needs to come to America to study. You have two means to give.
Shall we see how much we can raise? Once you donate, let me know in the comments section. I’ll start things off by sending a $50US cheque today to the CUNY fund.
Dean Steve Shepard
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
535 E. 80th St.
New York, NY 10021
Make sure to note that this is for the �Zeyad Scholarship Fund.�
Done.
It’s not that I don’t want anyone to succeed but why isn’t the NY Times and other media he has written for not helping him? And, do we really need any more journalists given the crap the schools are turning out now?
Maybe I should have blogged to get my kids through college?
We don’t know that they haven’t. As for the other questions, any donation is voluntary!
But I’ve updated the post to add more background info, if htat helps.
Here’s a cynical tip for Zeyad.
Declare yourself a member of the Taliban and that you’ve killed American military.
You’ll be awarded a four year free ride to Yale.
You might have to pose in a picture with Cindy Shehan or Michael Moore.
Ot just paint a sing saying “Death to Israel” hold it up on the corner of Broadway and 116th street and you’ll receive congratulations from a hundred leftist Jewish professors and a four year scholarship to Columbia.
Will attending journalism school (usually full of liberals) really make him a better blogger?
I’ve been reading Zeyad for a few years. It’s interesting take on life in a Baghdad neighbourhood.
But saying that, he’s also a misanthropic pessimist who, in his own words, often can’t be bothered to get out of bed and go to work. It’s the kind of viewpoint that The Guardian warmly welcomed to write about in its pages.
Is this perspective valuable? Yes, hands down it beats the drivel we get from the MSM ensconced in the Green Zone.
Is it something I’d fund as useful to helping Iraq make the transformation to a free democracy? Not a chance. It’s fodder for the defeatists.