'Lying' CNN crews told to leave
Iraq
US television news channel Cable News Network (CNN) has
been ordered to leave Iraq, an Iraqi information ministry official said.
CNN reporters Robertson, Brahimi expelled from
Baghdad
Dow Jones Newswires
CNN says Nic Robertson and Rym Brahimi were
ordered to leave immediately for the Jordanian border, and their
bureau was closed. "The important thing is that these people get out
safely," CNN's Bill Hemmer said on the air.
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CNN correspondent Sites really loves
blogging from Iraq
San Francisco Chronicle
Kevin Sites says of his
blogging: "This experience has
really made me rethink my rather orthodox views of reaching folks via
mass media." He calls weblogging "an incredible tool, with
amazing potential." Dan Fost says Sites' weblog, which isn't
authorized by CNN, gives insight into the mind of the war correspondent.
UPDATE: "I've been asked to suspend my war blogging for a
while," Sites writes on Friday.
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In what the media termed a "healthy display of detached
introspection," the media today accused the media of unfairly
convicting the media in the media, according to a widely covered media
report critical of the media's self-absorbed coverage of itself.
"Lately it has been popular in the media to try and convict the
media for exaggerating the importance and influence of the media on
issues such as the economy and the Internet," said the report's
co-author, recently retired CNN anchor Bernard Shaw. "We in the
media felt it was time to take a look at the way the media has been
looking at the media looking at the media's coverage, and we were
appalled at what we found ourselves finding ourselves finding out about
ourselves."
The report, however, drew immediate criticism from Shaw, who blasted
himself in a two-hour televised panel discussion.
"This report gives me pause to wonder if, by giving so much weight
to how we cover ourselves, we in the media aren't giving ourselves too
much credit for having an influence," he said. "I just hope we
in the media have the guts to look into this."
Another panel member, ABC Nightline anchor Ted Koppel, went a step
further. "I think the big story here is not that we are unfairly
convicting ourselves of convicting ourselves. People simply don't care
about that," said Koppel. "The big story is 'How are we in the
media going to react to the accusation that we are unfairly convicting
ourselves of convicting ourselves, and how is that going to influence our
coverage of how we influence events with our coverage?' Tonight after
your local news."
A survey of people outside media circles, meanwhile, found that 92
percent had not heard of the report, or read the 647 newspaper stories
about it, or seen the 36 televised roundtable discussions on the topic
that have aired since this morning. Those results drew the ire of Heather
O'Mara, editor of newly launched InsideInside.com, which covers
Inside.com, which covers what's going on inside the media.
"That's yet another example of how people outside the media just
aren't interested in keeping up with the news," said O'Mara.
"It's one reason why we need to do a better job keeping track of
ourselves keeping track of ourselves."
Nearly 100 percent of survey respondents, however, insisted that people
aren't interested in how the media covers itself covering a story, but
instead want to learn about the story itself. To that, media members
agreed wholeheartedly.
"The media has to step back and ask itself whether there even needs
to be coverage of its coverage," said TV journalist Geraldo Rivera.
"It's a point I make in my upcoming CNBC special, The Influence
of Geraldo Rivera's Coverage on Geraldo Rivera's Coverage: Geraldo Rivera
Reports.
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