Friday, 20 February, 2004

TomPaine's Dreyfuss Report. As a minor follow on to the preceding piece, I noticed that the web site Tompaine.com has started an embedded web log dedicated solely to the situation in Iraq which they are calling the Dreyfuss report - after reporter Bob Dreyfuss, who is running it. It seems to be a more complex content management system emulating a web log, I haven't quite got the hang of its navigation yet. Its inauguration was this last wednesday 18 Feb 04. One of the things I noticed in that days post I wanted to point out is where he is recommending sources and says: Check out "Baghdad Burning", a blog by a beautifully articulate 24-year-old Iraqi woman. Her thoughts read like a diary, a political commentary and novel all wrapped together. (post: Iraqi Voices) Mir's Dim Sum Diaries has had that link on her blog roll for a couple months now. Way ahead of you there Bob. Go Mir! The Dreyfuss report seems to have gotten of to a gang buster start judging from the first two days. He seems intent on catching up and getting a handle on the story. Most news sites now have a special Iraq section (NPR has a nice one Beyond the War in Iraq), but these sites demonstrate the general failure of the press on Iraq from the near absolute lack of questioning coverage in the year leading up to the war and it's initial conduct - which is that the coverage is reactive and massively behind the wave front of the story. This may be a case where small is beautiful and a web log is the right tool. --- 22Feb04: made a minor correction to the Dreyfuss link so that it will bring the index page and not just last Thurdays post. ._._. pb _._ 9:31:31 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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