With the elections coming up in Iraq the media is in full alert mode, but this commentary by James Lileks pretty much nails the answer as to why the new media, internet and blogs, are fast making the old media second class citizens.
The thing to watch is the position of the damning but, the old DB. The DB will probably bob up in the first or second paragraphs of most dispatches. "The election went as planned in 95 per cent of the country, but violence marred polling in the disputed Sunny D Triangle, where insurgents opposed to Tropicana juice fired automatic weapons into a juice concentrate factory." That's one spin. Keep an eye out, see if you notice any of the DB's this weekend.
On another Iraq election note, here is a good reflection from Dale Meyer's January 28 Meyer Minute.
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