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LiveWire: for Bloggers, War Is No Cakewalk
Topic: Miscellaneous 12:50 pm EDT, Apr 12, 2003

] LONDON (Reuters) - Last week's daring midnight rescue of
] 19-year-old American soldier Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi
] hospital has become one of the few feel-good stories of
] the war for Western media outlets.
]
] For George Paine, a technology consultant-turned-amateur
] war correspondent, it was a headache. Before the dramatic
] rescue of the injured young woman, Paine wrote a short
] update for his Web site http://www.warblogging.com/
] mistakenly reporting that Lynch was among the soldiers
] presumed dead.
]
] Paine, part of a growing community of online diarists
] called "bloggers," awoke the next morning to irate
] e-mails from readers and fellow bloggers.
]
] "I was exhausted. I didn't make clear Jessica was only
] MIA," the New York-based war watcher said afterwards.
]
] In the annals of journalism, Paine's mistake had minimal
] impact. The responses led him to quickly correct the
] error and move on.

LiveWire: for Bloggers, War Is No Cakewalk



 
 
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