Susan Mernit, a friend and former VP with Netscape and AOL Time Warner, has written her first story in eight years. It’s a subject that I find particularly interesting, since I’ve blogged it several times in the past couple of weeks:
Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy. CNN’s decision to shut down a popular blog from war correspondent Kevin Sites has stirred a raging debate over the use of blogging as an effective journalistic tool.
The story nicely details the genesis of Kevin’s blog.
For its part, CNN again comes off sounding like a scolding schoolmarm:
At CNN.com, for example, a spokesperson says that its news executives do not believe in blogs. “CNN.com prefers to take a more structured approach to presenting the news,” the spokesperson said. “We do not blog. CNN.com will continue to provide photo galleries, video clips, breaking stories and interactive modules as ways to involve readers in learning about the war.”
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