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To: LindyBill who wrote (45094)	5/19/2004 10:47:09 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793790

The feeling I get from the Iraqi blogs is we have very little feel of the Iraqi life. I don’t completely trust the blogs, just as I don’t completely trust the media. What assurance do you have that any given blogger is not on somebody’s payroll, telling you what somebody wants told? Even beyond that possibility, the blogger's lives may reflect little of what goes on in the streets, especially in the less affluent neighborhoods. Add to that the fact that most interpreters are ex-baathist "minders" and you realize that the filtering is really dark. Source on that? Sounds unlikely, on the surface. Al Jaariza, et al, are useless. Useless in the sense that they don’t say what you want to hear, yes. I don’t think those Ollie North interviews on Fox are any better. No less spun, just a different spin. I try to scan the widest possible range of Internet media on any given story, and assume that the truth is somewhere between the various poles represented. The Google news search is good for that. Gives a good idea of how news is being presented around the world. It is of course true that the media would rather report explosions and battles than stories about people drilling wells and building schools. That’s not really evidence of media bias, that’s just the media delivering what draws eyeballs. Any newspaper in the world is going to run “Madman with axe slaughters 6” above “Soup kitchen feeds hundreds”. That’s business, not bias.