August 29th, 2007 by admin | 1 Comment
For those of us following the reporting of the Iraq war in the American press Michael O’Halloran and Kenneth Pollack’s article in the NY Times earlier this month entitled A War We Just Might Win represented a major change in the reporting of the war in the MSM. I believe it was a watershed event [...]
August 27th, 2007 by admin | 3 Comments
Another debate on the value of blogging versus the press has broken out. Michael Skube of Elon University in the LA Times makes a fairly standard journalist’s attack on blogging called Blogs: All the Noise That Fits. NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen, on his blog Press Think, responds with examples challenging Skube’s thesis here. In [...]
August 22nd, 2007 by admin | No Comments
I have been watching with increasing amusement the MSM and the Democrats – particularly Hillary – pick up on ‘the surge is working’ narrative. And I am likewise amused by Republicans who take the shift in narrative seriously. I am amused because I follow what is happening Iraq as closely as I can through independent [...]