Reply #6: I dunno what the kids get

[GreenZoneLT]

I'm an old staff fart, working in the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad; I think most of the live entertainment goes out to where the actual combat troops are, or to the big base at Camp Victory (a few miles west of here, over by the airport). I mostly rely on CDs and DVDs my friends mail me, or mail order them from Amazon. The bandwidth is too narrow to download much. You can also buy any number of bootleg movies in the Hajji shops for $2 apiece. The biggest problem is having any time to watch it; most of us spend 80 hours a week at work, or more.

At the Embassy, we get first-run movies, 30 channels of cable (including a half-dozen Arabic ones like Al Jazeera). The occasional live act, but not the best stuff, which rightly goes to where the kids are.