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 *Comment - I don't have issue with chronicling Joe's every changing work.  However we should be careful to give his current role its due weight.  To say he ""became a correspondent"" gives his current gig a greater sense of permanence and meaning.  It's not a permanent position as far as we can tell.  I would think a more neutral phrasing would be along the line of, ""In January 2009, Pajamas Media hired Wurzelbacher to comment on the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict from Israel.""  I would add that Joe's comments that ""journalists should be anywhere [around] war"" suggests that he does not identify himself with journalist in the area.  "