… by Bruce Chapman, aptly titled Liberation Online. Regarding one embarrassing correction of the MSM by (who else?) Iraq the Model, Chapman notes:
The bloggers had heard it, the L.A. Times reporter had not. The paper ultimately had to correct its account, though never acknowledging the indignant Iraqis who caught its snide oversight.
And speaking of my “snide” local paper, read this. [Is there another big city in the world with less newspaper competition than LA?-ed. Well, start another one, smart guy.]
Don’t forget that there’s a weekly round-up of posts by Iraqi bloggers called Carnival of the Liberated that appears every Tuesday morning bright and early on Dean’s World.
Is there another big city in the world with less newspaper competition than LA?
It may depend on what you mean by a big city, but there are quite a few American cities where the second-best-selling newspaper is something from another city – Minneapolis (unless St. Paul counts as the same city), San Francisco (unless San Jose counts as the same city), San Jose (the biggest city in the Bay Area!), and Atlanta all come to mind immediately.
Is there another big city in the world with less newspaper competition than LA?
Try Ft. Worth, where there’s only one paper, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (some times jokingly called the “Startlegram”), original home of Molly Ivins. Granted, we do have decent circulation of the Dallas Morning News but both papers have a very similar slant. At least LA has the LA Daily News, which, IMHO, is at least balanced in their coverage (I lived in and around LA for 16 years and much prefer to be back here in Texas).
I love the fact that the blog allows for the common person to be heard.
Here is another blog by an Iraqi.
This guy started a very cool project of getting local folks together to do reconstruction, instead of waiting for the US to come and do it for them.