The Forever War Blog 10/15/10

In this blog I want to talk about a trend I'm beginning to see in our authors writing style. I have noticed (especially in the more recent chapters) that each chapter is comprised of little stories. I'm not sure if each chapter is broken down chronologically. I have a theory as to why the book is written this way. We know that the author is actually a journalist and as anyone who has picked up a paper knows journalists write in a much different style than book writers. Once I noticed this trend I started to read each little story like it was a column.

I actually perfer this type of writing. The one reason I stop reading many books is that it gets off topic on too many details. I always found the newspaper to be a much easier read giving me the facts and letting me make judgement about it. This book is like a giant news article. I am enjoying it very much.

Medal of Honor dropping Taliban from Multiplayer

The talk of the town piece that I am going to do is with regards to EA deciding to drop the multiplayer team name of Taliban and replace it with "Opposing Force". I have a backround in public relations so I think I can bring something interesting to this paper. The facts regarding this issue are still pouring in but it seems as though EA has found itself in a bit of a PR jam. EA believed that by changing the name from Taliban to Opposing Force that many upset people would no longer complain and that the US military would stock the game for purchase for off-duty soliders overseas. However, some complaints may have been silenced but the US military is still not going to stock the game and now the gaming community, Medal of Honors primary public, are upset with the lack of courage EA has displayed with this step.