Word: blogger
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Amateur journalists are a different breed. They generally are disaffected, former big-media men and women who are fed up with the state of news today, and resolve to do 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...
Still, the best blogs on the web are the storytellers, where the blogger has a point of view that no one else can easily achieve. Sergeant Chris Missick is one of these people. His blog, set in Iraq and entitled A Line in the Sand, is a soldier’s take on the war. In Missick’s case, it’s a slightly jaded take, as his blog convincingly argues that mainstream media are missing the real, positive stories in the country in their zeal to sensationalize the war and negate America’s achievements...
...Republican blogger “Airborne Combat Engineer” called Kerry’s professional nail nippings indicative of something “petty” and “Poodle-like” about his character...
...wished to remain anonymous, has obtained some notoriety for her blog, “missmimesis,” which is currently featured in nerve.com’s Blog-A-Log competition. The Nerve Blog-A-Log allows readers to numerically rate six featured blogs until the lowest scoring blogger is replaced. Her blog, which is connected to her online personal ad on the site, examines the contemporary dating scene...
Having caught the scent of a juicy story from the MSM (mainstream media) to bite into, the bloggers were waiting to pounce like a pack of hounds behind the butcher shop. On Sept. 7, the day before the CBS broadcast, left-leaning blog talkingpointsmemo.com announced that 60 Minutes was to air "documents that shed light on Bush's guard service or lack thereof." The following afternoon, bloggers at freerepublic.com a conservative website, began anticipating the coverage with comments such as, "CBS should have to register as a Democrat [campaign organization]." Minutes into the broadcast, another Free Republic blogger (known...