Reader advocate on Iraq, blogs
Salt Lake Tribune reader advocate Connie Coyne wrote today:
No, she's not agreeing with the reader "who complained that The Salt Lake Tribune is 'prejudiced for President Bush and is not telling the truth about what's going on in Iraq.'" Rather, Coyne says, journalists in Iraq have restricted access due to safety concerns and thus cannot tell the real story.
I'm not sure Coyne's premise is correct. Relatively speaking, the Iraq conflict has been subjected to more and better news coverage than any other armed conflict in history. Witness, among other examples of fine journalism, the acclaimed book, Generation Kill, by embedded journalist Evan Wright. I didn't particularly care for Coyne's story about blind people and elephants, either.
Coyne then goes on to define weblogs in a rather quaint way:
I am sure there is no newspaper in the country that is "telling the truth about what's going on in Iraq."
No, she's not agreeing with the reader "who complained that The Salt Lake Tribune is 'prejudiced for President Bush and is not telling the truth about what's going on in Iraq.'" Rather, Coyne says, journalists in Iraq have restricted access due to safety concerns and thus cannot tell the real story.
I'm not sure Coyne's premise is correct. Relatively speaking, the Iraq conflict has been subjected to more and better news coverage than any other armed conflict in history. Witness, among other examples of fine journalism, the acclaimed book, Generation Kill, by embedded journalist Evan Wright. I didn't particularly care for Coyne's story about blind people and elephants, either.
Coyne then goes on to define weblogs in a rather quaint way:
These Weblogs are the ruminations of Internet-savvy folks of all kinds who periodically sit at their keyboards and unload (it seems) everything that passes through their minds. A "blog" is the site in cyberspace where the "blogger" writes. Much of what appears on these blogs is opinion and some of them never reveal sources for what they purport is truth. They link to other Internet sites that agree with their points of view.
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