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March 25, 2003
Sanitised news
The Guardian reported yesterday on the Iraqi blogger whose site has become so popular it caused the web servers to crash recently. That this blog (Where is Raed?) is so popular should come as no surprise given the poverty of the journalism on the Iraq war so far.
Last night's Four Corners programme (Operation Persuasion) on ABC television provided a few clues as to why. The 'embedded journalists' are 'in bed ' with the military! In defence of the journos, they appear to have very little choice in the matter, and they only get to see and report on those things that assist in the propaganda war. Interestingly, I learnt from my colleague Joanne Jacobs tonight, that CNN have asked Kevin Sites to stop 'warblogging' because they didn't like the fact that people were going to him for news ahead of CNN (especially as he is employed by CNN!). Who is pulling CNN's strings I wonder? In the meantime, the soap opera that is Fox News goes from bad to worse.
Posted by jeremy at March 25, 2003 09:54 PM
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