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04/09/03
The official list of American servicemen killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom as of 9:30 a.m. EST Friday.
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Air strike on AL Jazeera kills one |
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04/08/03
Al-Jazeera accused the US military of "deliberately targetting" its offices and recalled that the station's Kabul bureau had been hit in November 2001 during the US-led assault on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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NBC’s David Bloom dies in Iraq |
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04/06/03
David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent traveling with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died Sunday, NBC announced. Bloom, a 39-year-old husband and father of three, died of an apparent pulmonary embolism, the company said.
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L.A. Times Photographer Fired Over Altered Image |
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04/03/03
Bartletti recalls asking him, "How could you do this?"
Walski said: "I f---ed up, and now no one will touch me. I went from the front line for the greatest newspaper in the world, and now I have nothing. No cameras, no car, nothing."
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Al Jazeera suspends broadcasts from Iraq |
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04/03/03
Al Jazeera has decided to suspend, until further notice, the work of all its correspondents in Iraq after the information ministry informed its office in the Iraqi capital of the ban on Baghdad-based correspondent Diyar al-Umari and the request for Tayseer Alluni to leave the country as soon as possible.
The Iraqi government gave no reason for its action against the Arabic-language station, which has been criticised by the United States and Britain for beaming distressing pictures of the war that is intended to oust President Saddam Hussein.
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Mirror readers turn off war stance |
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04/03/03
Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has admitted the paper's resolutely anti-war stance could lead to sales falling below 2 million for the first time in over 70 years.
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BBC CAMERAMAN KILLED IN IRAQ |
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04/02/03
Golestan, a 52-year old Iranian national who had freelanced for the BBC for the past three years, was killed instantly when he stepped out of his car onto a land mine in the town of Kifri, located in the southern part of Kurdish-controlled Iraq, the BBC said. |
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Four Journalists Missing in Iraq Are Safe |
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04/01/03
Two Newsday journalists and two freelance photographers who were missing for more than a week in Iraq sent word Tuesday that that were safe and had left the country.
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Arnett Fired; Fox's Geraldo In Hot Water |
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04/01/03
NBC and MSNBC dumped correspondent Peter Arnett yesterday for criticizing the United States on Saddam Hussein's television station, while Fox News star Geraldo Rivera is being withdrawn from Iraq amid Pentagon charges that he revealed sensitive information. |
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Should News Sites Charge You to See the War?;
The Scotsman, Vortech Respond to Previous Columns
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03/31/03
Check out these chart-busters (courtesy of comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings): CNN.com gets 10 million at-work visitors the first week of war, up 58 percent. Yahoo! News had 6.5 million workers, NYTimes.com had 2.8 million and AOL News hit 2.7 million. The BBC site's traffic doubled last Monday, the Guardian saw a 67 percent bump that day, Le Monde's site was up 129 percent and the International Herald Tribune site's up 135 percent. Even star weblogger Salam Pax helped push Blogspot.com traffic up 12 percent.
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‘I Was Sure I Was Dead’ |
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March 31 issue:
I was wrong. As I passed, I realized he was Iraqi. I looked to my right; there were more than a half-dozen men with guns racing toward my car. Just then the photographer came on the walkie-talkie and said in French, “Weapons! Weapons!” At that moment I heard the Iraqis pepper my car with bullets, hitting it all over.
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Blogging the War: A Guide |
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03/28/03
Some war blogs hail not from the front lines, but from the heartland of America, featuring links to all types of war coverage, expanding the scope of information provided to readers online. Blogs represent right- and left-leaning political viewpoints, as well as dispatches from both the antiwar movement and bloggers supportive of the U.S.-led war to disarm Iraq. A number of blogs have a feature on their sites for readers to donate money to various causes -- a sign that many of the blogs are grassroots efforts, compiled in basements and as moonlighting projects. War blogs have proved to be a wildly popular part of the war-reporting machine. | |
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Pentagon Expels CSM Reporter From Iraq |
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03/27/03
"My understanding of the facts at this point from the commander on the ground is that this reporter was reporting, in real time, positions, locations and activities of units engaged in combat," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in a statement to the Monitor. "The commander felt it was necessary and appropriate to remove (Smucker) from his immediate battle space in order not to compromise his mission or endanger personnel of his unit."
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Iraq Expels 2 Newsday Journalists; Whereabouts Unknown |
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03/26/03
"We're very concerned until we hear from them. We aren't in communication with them,” Marro said, adding that Newsday is working with other U.S. reporters in Baghdad and news organizations to find out the whereabouts of McAllester and Saman. The paper also has tried to contact the Iraqi information ministry, so far to no avail.
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War reporters face new challenges |
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03/24/03
There are too many of us here. There are 2,000 reporters accredited with the US military.
Of those 500 are embedded with the coalition forces and they are telling the story of this war - graphically, dramatically, instantly and sometimes live, commentating on battles as they unfold, and before the outcome is known.
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Iraq expels CNN reporters from Baghdad
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03/22/03
But when the first round of the ``shock and awe'' campaign finally happened Friday morning, Robertson was not able to anchor CNN's report from Baghdad. Robertson, reporter Rym Brahimi, producer Ingrid Formanek and photographer Brian Puchaty were ordered off the air and out of the country by the Iraqi government just before the air assault began.
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The Slate Field Guide to Iraq Pundits |
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03/14/03
What's the difference, if any, between William Kristol and Robert Kagan? Which one of those ex-generals worked for Bush the Father, which worked for Clinton, and which worked for Bush the Son? Who is Frank Gaffney, and why is he always on my TV set?
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Baghdad fall shocks Arab press
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04/10/03
This loathsome war against Iraq is a war in which more bombs and weapons of destruction have been used than before in the history of mankind. It is a war against the Arabs. It is first a war against Arab honour and second a war to change the geographical map of the Arab nation.
Al-Arab al-Alamiyah - London
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Baghdad Strike Injures Five Journalists
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04/08/03
A journalist was killed and at least four were injured Tuesday when U.S. forces fired on their hotel in central Baghdad. The Americans said they were responding to fire in the area of the hotel. |
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Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq
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04/04/03
Michael Kelly, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and Washington Post columnist who abandoned the safety of editorial offices to cover the war in Iraq, has been killed in a Humvee accident while traveling with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division. |
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Peter Arnett's Treason
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04/03/03
In other words, Arnett is telling the Iraqis that his reporting "about civilian casualties . . . helps those who oppose the war." Opposing the war is not a crime, to be sure. Nor is providing information that helps those who oppose the war. But by telling the government and people of Iraq that opposition to the war is growing and that his reports might help that along, Arnett was clearly suggesting that he was helping them with their war goals. |
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Media Map of Iraq
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Excellent map displays locations of embedded
and independent journalists in Iraq and neighboring countries. Click on the color-coded icon and it displays
the journalists name and their sponsoring news outlet. With an additional click on the journalist's name, a Google News search is performed with suprisingly useful results.
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Britain's Daily Mirror Paper Hires Peter Arnett
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04/01/03 "Fired by America for telling the truth," the
Daily Mirror said in a Page 1 headline.
"I am still in shock and awe at being fired," Arnett wrote for the newspaper, which is vehemently opposed to the war. "I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it."
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Perceptions: Where Al-Jazeera & Co. Are Coming From
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03/30/03
There is a mix of news talk shows,
press briefings, anchors reading headlines and then turning to video footage of the war. But the messages are uniformly anti-American: Americans are barbaric, and here are the pictures to prove it. We Arabs are heroic, and here are images of us downing their planes.
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Lack of trust in media turns many to alternative sources
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03/28/03
Ahmed Versi, the editor of Muslim News,
a monthly UK-based paper, says his newspaper's website is getting extra traffic as a result of this lack of trust. "We're getting an extra 2,000-3,000 hits a day. Many don't believe the media, especially the US news. They don't trust western media's portrayal of the war. Even those who don't understand Arabic will watch the Arab channels just to see the pictures."
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Bloggers’ Delight
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03/28/03
“I’VE GOT 32 WINDOWS open on my browser, the TV is on, and I’ve got the BBC on my RealPlayer,” says the 32-year-old freelance financial consultant. “I woke up to 332 e-mails this morning.”
From this command post, Kelley single-handedly creates a Weblog called The Agonist, which tracks and comments on developments in the war with Iraq.
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Television agendas shape images of war
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03/27/03
When mention
of the war becomes unavoidable, Iraqi television eschews blood-and-guts images of the kind shown by al-Jazeera, preferring carefully stage-managed interviews with hospitalised victims who invariably praise Saddam Hussein and/or condemn the Americans.
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Embedded in Controversy
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03/27/03
It's suddenly become fashionable to dump on the embedded reporters.
They're tools of the military. They're part of the Pentagon propaganda machine. They only churn out good news. They're not allowed to report anything negative.
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The Saddam Show
How to watch Iraqi TV on the Web. |
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03/25/03
Viewers be warned: American TV networks make daily decisions on what to show or not to show their viewers. On the Internet, it's easy to route around those decisions. If blogging makes everyone a journalist, then tricks like this one make everyone their own news producer. If you're squeamish, or if you're the relative of an American soldier, you may not want to watch images that the TV networks have deemed unfit for American audiences.
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'Webloggers,' Signing On as War Correspondents |
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03/23/03
For all the saturation coverage of the invasion of Iraq, this has become the first true Internet war, with journalists, analysts, soldiers, a British lawmaker, an Iraqi exile and a Baghdad resident using the medium's lightning speed to cut through the fog of war. The result is idiosyncratic, passionate and often profane, with the sort of intimacy and attitude that are all but impossible in newspapers and on television.
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Wonder who to watch? Here's networks' war lineup |
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03/22/03
CNN has the most reporters, NBC has "Desert Storm's" top commander, Norman Schwarzkopf, ABC has the best gadgets, CBS has basketball cut-ins, and, of course, Fox News Channel has the best shouting. So how is a viewer supposed to decide which network to turn to for coverage of the war in Iraq? Here's everything you need to know about which network has what assets:
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Al-Jazeera Television |
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03/14/03
Al-Jazeera is slick, stylish and successful, dubbed the CNN of the Arab world. The network covers the Middle East and the world 24 hours a day. In Canada, Al-Jazeera gets the attention of three generations of Rana Cheray's family. Cheray, a Palestinian and a chemical engineer in Ottawa, says it's worth the $100 it costs every month so the family can get news from home.
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