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From The Herald's Research Editor

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Paying attention:

In Iraq:
Jeff Jarvis has posted a startling example of how blogs may sometimes report news that doesn't make it to the mainstream media. According to Jarvis, Iraqi bloggers predicted the current violence a long time ago. If there had been more notice in American media, perhaps some of this could have been prevented? In particular, he cites Zeyad's Healing Iraq blog, which was reporting chaos in Baghdad at last posting over a week ago:

"Just in case you were wondering. Yes, we did contact the police in our neighbourhood using the public phone numbers they had given out a couple of months ago. Guess what? They were surrounded by insurgents and couldn't do anything about it."

And, an interesting comment from this posting:

"One can't help but notice that the clerics who usually incite holy wars in Iraq against the US occupation on the expense of Iraqis are based in countries allied to the US such as Qatar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt."

And, in the Ukraine:
If you're wondering what's going on there (considering it's another election crisis like Florida went through) and not finding much in the news media, try the blogs: Neeka's Backlog is a blog from a journalist in the Ukraine; she's writing a lot about the election crisis. Good Ukraine links here too. And, another Ukrainian blog: Orange Ukraine.

posted by liz at 4:08 PM

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Elisabeth Donovan

Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to the field.

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