21st Mar 2003
CNN Censors War Blogger
Well, it seemed too good to be true. The CNN journalist Kevin Sites, who had recently started blogging from Iraq, to much fanfare in the blogosphere, was told to stop by CNN:
I’ve been asked to suspend my war blogging for awhile.But I don’t want let you down — I’m chronicling the events of my war experiences, the same as I always have, and hope to come to agreement with CNN in the near future to make them available to you in some shape or form, perhaps on this site.
That’s certainly going to mute sympathy for CNN’s cries of censorship in getting kicked out of Baghdad themselves.
Check out the BBC correspondent blog instead, as well as John Pendygraft’s blog, a photographer for the St. Petersburg Times who is blogging from the front lines. And don’t forget Where Is Raed, the real Blogger of Baghdad (or so we’re led to believe).
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