Hurricane Gustav was far less a threat than many expected, this past week. It presented the new media, Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0, with the opportunity to strut their stuff. Community building, networking, two-way communication, citizen journalism and more were on display.

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The old media is beginning to be a day late and a dollar short. They don’t need to be but that’s the way they are applying their business model. I can see up to the minute coverage of many stories on line at no cost. What does the old media have to offer?

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The Iraqi government has been moving troops south since late summer, which did not go unnoticed by our leadership. There are American advisors at all levels of the military, from the Ministry of Defense on down. To suggest that the United States was not aware that this operation was going forward is nonsense. Dozens of Americans had to have had been aware.

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Oh, God, I’m about to say something nice about the New York Times. Do not adjust your set.
The Times’ Baghdad Bureau has a blog. It’s called Baghdad Bureau - Iraq From the Inside.
It appears to be an outstanding effort at a group blog. It’s full of information, pics, video, and links.
OK, now back to the [...]

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BRAVO! There’s no reason this channel should not be on every cable system in the nation.
DVIDS
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
Arizona cable subscribers will soon have access to the latest military news from the comfort of their living rooms, thanks to an agreement between an Arizona city and a national cable provider.
The Peoria City [...]

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AP
The 2007 honor went to the Russian leader because of Putin’s “extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability,” said Richard Stengel, Time’s managing editor.
And the trains run on time!
What a really lousy choice, Time. bin Laden wasn’t available?

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Thers at firedoglake has posted a response to the David Hazinski piece in the Atlanta paper as so many of us have.
He, she or it makes the same points that all of us have tried to make. Well, 50% of them anyway. You see, lefty blogs are citizen journalists. Blogs like mine, well, he doesn’t [...]

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The learned among us have chosen the term “citizen journalist” to describe what I do, what Glenn Reynolds does, what Matt Drudge does.
I object!

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Here’s what a journalism educator says about what I do and my response is below the fold. Hardly any foul language.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Having just anyone produce widely distributed stories without control can have the reverse effect from what advocates intend. It’s just a matter of time before something like a faked Rodney King beating video appears [...]

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I once had a manager who owned a “bullshit” stamp. Anything that qualified got kicked back to me with that stamped all over it.
The multi-page New Republic piece qualifies.
The nastiest, illiberal, homophobic bit was:
The Army didn’t announce this to The New York Times or even The Weekly Standard, let alone in a public report. It [...]

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AP
(11-19) 09:49 PST WASHINGTON (AP) –
In a Nov. 7 story about homeless veterans, The Associated Press, relying on figures from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, gave an incorrect estimate of 495,400 veterans who were homeless at some point during 2006.
Lowering its estimate, the alliance now says that 336,627 veterans were homeless at some point [...]

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