[lbo-talk] Media biased on Iraq? Global bloggers have their say

[geert lovink]

> http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/04/04/asking-the-blogosphere- 
> is-media-coverage-of-iraq-biased-in-what-direction/
>
> *Is the media telling the truth about Iraq? Do you have an opinion on
> this issue?*
>
> *How does the nature, quality, and content of media coverage of the  
> Iraq
> war ultimately impact the lives of people in Iraq, the Middle East and
> around the planet?*
>
> We want to bring the opinions of the world’s bloggers on this issue
> directly into the debate. *Please join us for a live discussion
> tomorrow, Wednesday at 22:00–24:00 GMT (6–8pm EDT).
> <http://today.reuters.com/news/globalCoverage.aspx? 
> type=newsmakersIraq&src=cms>*
>
> *Here’s the plan:* *Reuters will be hosting a panel discussion which
> will be videocast and audio cast via this link:*
> http://reuters.com/IraqNewsmakers
> <http://today.reuters.com/news/globalCoverage.aspx? 
> type=newsmakersIraq&src=cms>.
>
> *Several members of the Global Voices community will be live-blogging
> the event:* Middle East/North Africa Editor Haitham Sabbah
> <http://sabbah.biz/mt/>, Iraq contributor Salam Adil
> <http://asterism.blogspot.com/>, Iraqi-Australian blogger who now lives
> in the U.S., Fayrouz Hancock <http://fayrouz.blogspot.com/>, Omar of
> Iraq the Model <http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/> blogging from
> Baghdad, and Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar
> <http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/> (who will be present in the room
> in New York).
>
> *
> Panelists in the room* will include CBS’s Lara Logan
> <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/60II/main531421.shtml>,
> independent Iraqi photo journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
> <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/interviews/ 
> abdulahad.html>,
> Reuters’ Iraq Bureau Chief Alastair MacDonald
> <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR739871.htm>, Lt. Col.
> Steven Boylan <http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012058.php>, Chief of
> Strategic Communication, Combined Arms Center, U.S. Army, and others.
>
> *
> We will have a live IRC chat which you can join* (via the link above or
> on Freenode at #globalvoices. Read here for more instructions for
> getting on IRC <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/irc-instructions/>,  
> or
> you can use the client on the Reuters event site.
> <http://today.reuters.com/news/globalCoverage.aspx? 
> type=newsmakersIraq&src=cms>).
> I will be present in the room as “IRC ambassador,” representing your
> questions and comments in the room and making sure that the panelists
> address as many as possible.
>
> *
> If you have views in advance, you can start sharing them now in several
> ways: *
>
> *- Write a comment on this post: http://tinyurl.com/ewwhd*
>
> *- Write your views on your own blog and trackback to that post. *
>
> *- When you find blog posts and articles related to this issue that you
> want to share please tag them “gv-iraq” in Technorati
> <http://technorati.com/tag/gv-iraq> or del.icio.us
> <http://del.icio.us/tag/gv-iraq>. *
>
> Feel free to tag your own posts that way too so we can find them easily
> and re-blog them for the world to see.
>
> This is our first experiment with Reuters in blogger-MSM collaboration.
> The intent is to bring the views of bloggers to a much wider audience
> than normally reads blogs – and to make many blog-readers aware of a
> much wider range of global bloggers.
>
> See you tomorrow in cyberspace!
>
> Rebecca
>
> Rebecca MacKinnon
> www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org <http://www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org>
> "The world is talking. Are you listening?"
>
> Weblog: www.RConversation.com <http://www.RConversation.com>