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March 26, 2003
Wall Street Journal
Curiously, unlike the military, traditional media outlets have been trying to quash their personnel's blogging efforts. Kevin Sites, a CNN correspondent in northern Iraq, had been posting photographs, short accounts and audio reports on his Web log until CNN pressured him to stop. "Covering a war for CNN . . . is a full-time job and we asked Kevin to concentrate only on that for the time being," a CNN spokeswoman says. Mr. Sites wrote on his site that he hoped to reach an agreement with CNN. The day his site went quiet, it registered a total of 33,285 visitors, up from 4,307 people a week earlier.
Posted by Xeni Jardin at March 26, 2003 11:13 PM