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Dang, And I Was Just Getting Started. [Jockularocracy]
Blogging is not the new journalism. It’s the new zine. They will disappear when some of the more high-profile bloggers—those who came up from nothing with a will to write, not those high-vis journos who slummed in the freeform—find jobs in the mainstream press, where they clearly thirst to be. Their sites will atrophy, and the left-behinders will become bitter, scream "sellout" and lose interest.
The blog is a dead form within two years. On the outside.
Everyone make a copy of this post and hang it on your fridge with 9/29/05 written on it in magic marker. We will all meet back here in two years to see if the predictions are true. No .... wait .... that won't work! We won't be here in two years. OK .... never mind. (LP)
8:22:37 PM 
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What he said folks .. [Gut Rumbles]
Blogs aren't INTENDED to replace traditional journalism. Bloggers don't have the budgets to send people all over the world to cover breaking news. We'll always need Big Journalism for that. But bloggers CAN fact-check the asses of those people doing the Big Journalism reporting.
We'll never take over their bailiwick, but we can keep them honest...... (read the whole thing)
Just what is happening before our eyes now with the reporting from Iraq. Unless they come up with a way to take the Internet away from us, the days of the old journalism are over. If you don't tell the truth in your reporting now, the connected world will know about it in short order. The problem of countries like China will probably always be with us where the government will find a way to keep the free flow of information restricted. I believe even there the truth will get through. As in the old Soviet Union, the day will come when the people will say, enough is enough. (LP)
7:38:42 PM
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Collapsing France. Tim Blair takes notice of an interesting article from the UK Times... Three new books -- all written by French authors, and published in France -- claim that France is... [American RealPolitik]
Not to worry France. We'll bail you out as we do with everyone. (LP)
7:20:27 PM
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Baghdad City Cop . To those who claim that we're not doing enough, fast enough, it helps to put matters in perspective. We're doing a hard job to the best of our abilities, in postwar circumstances, with really scarce resources and a clock... [Zogby Blog]
In my four months in Iraq, spent living with, working with, and learning from Iraqi police, I've seen things that would sicken the worst of minds. In our hunt for the Fedayeen Saddam, Saddam Hussein's trained assassins, I watched video after video of interrogations of Iraqis whose lives ended with the detonation of a grenade that was tied to the neck or stuffed in the shirt pocket of the victim. I watched the living bodies disintegrate at the pull of the pin. And if that's not enough, there's a tape of Saddam sitting and watching one of his military generals being eaten alive by Dobermans because the general's loyalty was in question
1:33:03 PM
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Good News Is No News, Post Writer Insists. Journalists tend not to respond well to criticism, and the Washington Post's Dana Milbank provided a good example yesterday on CNN's "Reliable Sources," hosted by fellow Postman Howard Kurtz: Kurtz: There is criticism that the media, for example, are... [Zogby Blog]
This almost sounds like the big boys are starting to be affected by the "Truth from the front" wave sweeping the Internet. I see the day coming when the Nightly News will start off with "This just in from Zogby Blog" or "As reported today on Instapundit". Keep it up everyone. I really didn't think this blog thing was going to have any noticeable affect on the war news situation, but the cracks are starting to show. Keep hammering. (LP)
1:17:50 PM
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WINDS OF CHANGE has a roundup of Iraq news and a separate roundup on the wider war. As always, both are full of interesting stuff that you're likely to miss otherwise.... [Instapundit.com]
Even Lebanon's Daily Star is beginning to talk about the good news in Iraq: "In mid-summer, I spent over a month in Iraq. What I found there did not correspond to what was being reported...."
1:04:15 PM
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The media quagmire gets worse
The major world media has created a quagmire for itself, and hasn't a clue how to get out.
The true stories started leaking out of Iraq several weeks ago, and have now become a torrent. The Internet has created a deep quagmire that they sink further into each day.
What do they do now? They can't just say "We lied on purpose and now we are not going to do that anymore". Wouldn't it have been so much easier to just tell the real story from the beginning instead of creating this sinkhole.
I think there may be some great good come of this. From now on, no matter where they go in the world to cover major world events, they will be inclined to be more careful about sticking to the facts. We can always hope, but I have some fear that journalists are not retrainable. Time will tell if they are smart enough to learn from history.
Whats frightening is that in the past they have always had freedom to report anything they desired without fear of someone saying they were wrong. They could make up anything or slant things any direction they desired with little fear of being called on it. Now that they have been caught red handed, we have to wonder how tainted our perception of past world events are.
The past reporting methods will no longer be possible with troops in the field with laptops and instant email contact with home. And to think all this is happening because Al Gore invented the Internet. Way to go Al! (LP)
12:42:51 PM
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France demands [USS Clueless]
Those big strong forceful French are making demands again. The Captain of the USS Clueless doesn't seem to be intimidated. (LP)
8:28:56 AM
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Oh the awful Quagmire
It's also true that the Bush administration has been remarkably inept at communicating the success stories out of Iraq.
One result is the surging growth of an Internet universe - a lot of it linked via Instapundit.com - focused on spreading good news from Iraq and lambasting "Big Media," especially the anti-American BBC, for ignoring it.
But this week's Time magazine is typical of a press corps that has - mostly - raced to highlight every bit of bad news from Iraq, and virtually none of the good news.
When NBC anchor Tom Brokaw went to Iraq, it was as if he was visiting a different country than that any other TV journalist had reported from, because he left Baghdad and many of his reports actually had an optimistic tone.
Why? Perhaps because Brokaw has chronicled the Greatest Generation and World War II, a time of patience instead of attention deficit disorder and a demand for overnight success. Nowadays, one can imagine critics instantly howling for Dwight D. Eisenhower's head over the deaths on D-Day.
7:56:21 AM
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