Word: allbrittonã
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...something about it with nothing more than a satellite phone and a laptop. Witness back-to-iraq.com, where blogger Christopher Allbritton regularly updates his site with dispatches from Baghdad (until recently when Time, his stringing day job, moved him out). Funded by reader donations that have reached $15,000, Allbritton??€™s site leaks sarcasm and malice, but nonetheless includes some great insights and on-the-ground reporting. If you want to hear about the reality of Western journalists in Iraq—stuck in a hotel room because of fear of kidnapping—Allbritton is the man to read...
...real problem with blogs, then, is that very, very few of them are like Chris Missick’s, Chris Allbritton??€™s or even Greta Van Susteren’s. Many of the most prominent blogs these days are linkers, where the blog entries consist of pithy comments introducing links to varied, yet monolithically partisan, news sources. They exist as media digests for the lazy but opinionated. The aforementioned Instapundit, for example, heavily favors linking to conservative media outlets. Unlike the amateur journalists and storytellers, linkers do not attempt to transcend mainstream media, only to navigate them...
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