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It’s 2011 and John McCain is President in a new graphic novel by journalist Anthony Lappé and artist Dan Goldman.
“Shooting War” began as a Web comic at SMITH Magazine in 2006 and was completed as a hardbound graphic novel that was published in November of 2007.
The book tells the story of video blogger Jimmy Burns (loosely based on blogger Josh Wolf).
In the story, Burns is thrown into the spotlight after he capturers a New York City terrorist attack on a corner Starbucks with his live-streaming video camera.
He soon finds himself reporting from Iraq as the newest addition to the fictional cable news outlet, Global News Network.
The book is not only a critical look at the war itself, but also the media who cover it.
Global News Network is a fictional network that hires a videoblogger to supplement their coverage. This idea might not be too far off with Web 2.0 and user created content at an all time high.
Power (Europe’s number one independent producer and distributor of high quality, award-winning mini series and movies for television) is going ahead with the development of a brand new state-of-the-art series on the war on terror, the media and the rise of citizen journalism after optioning the film and television rights for Lappé’s “Shooting War.”
Creator and writer Anthony Lappé is executive editor of GNN.tv, the Web site for the Guerrilla News Network.
Lappé is also the co-author of the book “True Lies” and the producer of the Showtime documentary about Iraq, “BattleGround: 21 Days on the Empire’s Edge.”
He has written for The New York Times, the Huffington Post and Salon, among others, and has been a producer for MTV News and Fuse.
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