Issue no. 332 - 22 February 2005

• US - Resignation at CNN Shows the Growing Influence of Blogs (New York Times)
  With the resignation of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months. After nearly two weeks of intensifying pressure on the Internet, Eason Jordan, the chief news executive at CNN, abruptly resigned after being besieged by the online community. Mr. Jordan, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, apparently said that he believed the United States military had aimed at journalists and killed 12 of them.

Issue no. 273 - 1 June 2003

• 'Of Course It's True; I Saw It on the Internet!': Critical Thinking in the Internet Era (Leah Graham and P. Takis Metaxas)
  In the past the greatest problem facing researchers was finding information; now, with the advent of the Internet, the greatest problem is evaluating the vast wealth of information available. Students in this survey placed greater emphasis on the process of finding an answer than on analyzing the actual information.

Issue no. 271 - 18 May 2003

• "Klingon Language Interpreter" Urban Legend (kuro5hin.org)
  by Seth Finkelstein. Every once in a while, in order to remind myself of the quality of information typically reported, I trace down the source of a particularly ridiculous story. The "Klingon Language Interpreter" myth, which is spawning now, provides an amusing case study of the process of pack journalism.

Issue no. 265 - 29 March 2003

• Conflict of interest: the sites you need to see (Guardian)
  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%. The second Gulf war has also seen the acceptance of the weblog by the mainstream media. see also Blogging the War: A Guide (Washington Post).

• Improved Tools Turn Journalists Into a Quick Strike Force (New York Times)
  Reporters covering the war in Iraq are at one with their technology as never before. Television reporters are toting hand-held video cameras and print journalists have traded the 70-pound satellite phones of the 1991 Gulf War for svelte models that can be held up to their ear. High-speed Internet lines in the desert and more satellites in the sky mean journalists can make a connection almost anywhere. As the conflict unfolds, they are tapping into the global communications grid regularly.

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