Omar at Iraq the Model has an interesting analysis of an article on Iraqi newspapers by former CNN editor Eason Jordan’s new Web venture IraqSlogger which claims the papers "sanitize their coverage" and are otherwise irrelevant. But Omar points out a number of mistaken conclusions, caused by a lack of understanding of the language and culture and trying to write from the U.S. instead of on the ground in Iraq:
"If the Slogger team wants to offer analysis or become a better alternative for whatever other sources of Iraq news, they ought to try better than this. Because if they keep writing like this, their site will soon be regarded as just one new waste of bandwidth, the same way that flipping channels looking for the whole image can be a waste of time."
Given Jordan’s biased and scandalous tenure with CNN (including sucking up to Saddam before he was deposed), screwing up would seem to be a normal part of his schtick.
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