Kind of a “behind the journalism” account of a reporting trip to Turkey, Iraq, Syria by some Seattle area journalists. Glidden’s main question during the trip is “what is journalism?”, but I feel like the bigger question Rolling Blackouts raises is “how can individuals help the suffering of the Iraqis whose country we destroyed?” (The answer probably does not include joining the Marines.) The result is an interesting look at what the work of independent reporters actually looks like. It is also an interesting picture of the region right before the Syrian Civil war blew everything up.