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To: LindyBill who wrote (90273)	12/12/2004 12:04:47 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

It is amazing. STOP: LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING By Cori Dauber Something really revolutionary happened the other day and it didn't quite occur to me until tonight. We're by now used to the fact that the time between an event, and that event's being reported, is now quite often literally zero. We don't even notice it anymore. Even when it comes to events in the war zones, we forget that the equipment and technology that made embedding reporters so radical weren't for the most part available during the initial phases of the war in Afghanistan, a mere eighteen months earlier. We're now used to the fact that when reporters embed, they can provide live reports from the units they're covering, that events such as town halls that are taking place in the combat zone that aren't themselves combat, can be aired live. It just doesn't phase us anymore. Over the last several years we've also become used to the compression of time between the reporting of an event and the availability of vast amounts of critique and commentary on that reporting from bloggers. What is really radical, given the increased access to the Internet for service members in the combat zones, is the amazing compression between the reporting of an event from the combat zone, and the commentary on that reporting from eyewitnesses. (Example via Instapundit.) And that is truly something new in the annals of war reporting.