Robert Fisk: ‘It was an outrage, an obscenity‘
Bush under the X-ray Screen – it all makes sense now.
CNN Question of the Day: What do you think of the American media’s coverage of the war?
IRAQ-O-METER – 15 minute infographic updates
- Percentage of Americans who currently support this war: 72%
- Percentage of Americans who believe Iraq attacked the World Trade Center: 51%
- Percentage of Americans who cannot locate Iraq on a world map: 65%
Change of plans. DJ Colette is spinning for free at tonight’s TechnoTribe on campus. Should be a good night of house.
8:00pm - 9:00pm :: Dustin Ames (Break of Dawn, StormRiders) 9:00pm - 10:30pm :: Paris (Hard of Hearing, StormRiders) 10:30pm - 12:00am :: DJ Colette (Nettwerk America, djcolette.com)
Andy posted a really interesting analysis: Bias Affects Story Updates on Political Weblogs. Good stuff. A few things that blogging tools can improve on to help make corrections etc easier: visual diffs, update tracking (highlight changes), intra and inter-blog topic threading/auto-aggregation (clustering)
An Interview With Mike Davidson of ESPN (Part 1) at DevEdge. Very good points; useful for convincing suits on why forward compatibility is a good idea.
Upcoming Events in LA
Tonight: USCLUG topic: DNS: Delegation and Authority.
Tomorrow: teaching Intermediate Web Publishing
Also, a bunch of free film screenings on campus. About a Boy tomorrow at 3PM, and Sunset Boulevard to Mulholland Drive: The Film Series (along with an associated conference), which will be showing about a dozen films over the weekend, including Sunset Boulevard, Star Maps, Chinatown, Menace II Society, LA Confidential, Mulholland Drive, and Strange Days.
Yep, looks like the Pentagon has been true to their word, with independent journalists being targetted down. See also: WP: Unembedded Journalist’s Report Provokes Military Ire
Editor & Publisher: 15 Stories They’ve Already Bungled, Mitchell on the War Coverage So Far
On Monday, I received a call from a producer of a major network’s prime time news program. He said they wanted to interview me for a piece on how the public’s expectation of a quick victory somehow was too high. “But,” he hastened to add, “we don’t want to focus on the media.” I asked him where he thought the public might have received the information that falsely raised their hopes. In chat rooms, perhaps? The problem, I suggested, is that most of the TV commentators on the home front appear to be just as “embedded” with the military as the far braver reporters now in the Iraqi desert.