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Xeni Jardin : On Digital Journalism

Kevin Sites had to shut down the blog after war broke out. CNN told him to shut down. After he was captured and released. He resigned from CNN.

He was hired by NBC, but made a rquirement that he be allowed to blog as part of his contract.

http://www.kevinsites.net/

He is now stationed in Iraq.

What Xeni is doing is explaining the power of the blog to the unitiated. Kevin, a journalist, has opportunity to speak with his own voice - a voice that is his own rather than the sanctioned voice of the broadcast newscaster.

It's personal. It's human.

Me : I remember how the professor leaves her context. That there is something intimate about looking behind the curtain. That there is value to closing the distance between people and while there are needs for walls, that shared humaness changes the scale of events.

War is a large vista. Hard to understand. Like any narrative, it is through the protagonist that we find a point of view, an entrance into something large foreign and incomprehensible. The writer becomes our eyes. Our filter. Our means of making sense of a world too large.

Posted by weez at October 18, 2003 08:54 AM