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Ugh. I don't know about you, but the U.S. television coverage is exhausting to watch. My two televisions and web streams are keeping me up-to-date, but not very well informed. I find that Google News <http://news.google.com/> is the best way to get a comparative sense of what the media is covering. A quick visit to CNN or another major media site will let you know if anything major has happened in the last few minutes. My tour of English language news sites <http://www.kidon.com/media-link/english.shtml> didn't turn up much in terms of alternative English sources from the Middle East. Al-Jazeeza <http://www.al-jazeera.net> will soon have an English version <http://www.cursor.org/aljazeera.htm>. So instead of digging around myself, I plan to add a blog or two to my regular check-in as I reduce my television time dramatically. Below is a collection of articles and blogs that I found that will help me get more informed and less bogged down by the stream of repetitive facts and images. Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net Democracies Online Newswire http://www.e-democracy.org/do Best War Blogs Arik Hesseldahl, 03.20.03, 4:15 PM ET http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/03/20/cx_ah_0320warblogs.html Here is their list: 1. Daily Kos: Political analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation http://www.dailykos.com 2. Back to Iraq 2.0 Being a recounting of my journalistic adventures concerning Iraq http://www.back-to-iraq.com 3. Tacitus http://www.tacitus.org 4. Where is Raed? (From within Iraq) http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/ For real? http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2003/03/20 5. http://www.vodkapundit.com Also: March 20, 2003 / 4:00 PM ET BLOGGING THE WAR http://www.msnbc.com/news/809307.asp (very good, found at end of search) The War on the Web Sites to see on the road to Baghdad. By Avi Zenilman Updated Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 3:05 PM PT http://slate.msn.com/id/2080407/ As Missiles Fly, So Do Web Messages Thu March 20, 2003 05:10 PM ET By Reshma Kapadia http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2419289 Some additional analysis from Doc Searles, weblog leader: http://doc.weblogs.com/2003/03/20 Others: http://www.kevinsites.net - CNN reporter, N.Iraq (Mar 18 last update) http://www.agonist.org http://www.instapundit.com http://www.warblogs.cc http://www.warblogging.com http://www.ribbityfrog.blogspot.com http://www.defensetech.org http://volokh.blogspot.com http://www.blogsofwar.com (see left for other conservative sites) http://www.realpolitik.us http://uswarblog.tripod.com/warblog/ http://www.andrewsullivan.com http://sf.indymedia.org http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/2866547.stm - BBC's Blog http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/ http://www.msnbc.com/news/856672.asp As you'll note, most of opinion blogs are conservative expect for the less blog-like Indymedia sites, while many of the protest sites I shared <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00628.html> the other week were anti-war sites. More links: Shows links from blogs that are popular: http://blogdex.media.mit.edu Some satire on war blogging competition: http://warbloggerwatch.blogspot.com/ Progressive press releases: http://commondreams.org/newswire.htm *** Past Messages, Discussion http://e-democracy.org/do *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
