] 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 |