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March 28, 2003
The Guardian (UK)
Conflict of interest: the sites you need to see
Jane Perrone on the best of the warblogs
This is a momentous moment. For the first time, war has outstripped sex as the most frequent web search term according to internet service Freeserve.
This thirst for information has been matched by increased traffic on news sites. Yahoo! said traffic levels were three times higher in the hour after George Bush told Americans that war had started, while hits at Guardian Unlimited and BBC News Online have increased by at least 30%.
A few reporters have set up sites to house independent weblogs, such as BBC journalist Stuart Hughes, and Kevin Sites from CNN, both in northern Iraq. On March 21, CNN asked Sites to suspend his war blogging, causing an outcry among fellow bloggers, illustrating the potential problems of such a strategy in taking reporters' time and energy away from what is already a full-time job..."
Posted by Xeni Jardin at March 28, 2003 11:54 AM