War 2.0: ‘Neutral’ observers, Blogs and SMS alerts

Mads GilbertMads Gil­bert is a critic of US for­eign policy and of Israel. He also hap­pens to be a Nor­we­gian emer­gency medi­cine spe­cial­ist who is cur­rently work­ing inside Gaza.

As a doc­tor, he has shown up in TV reports describ­ing the situ­ation inside his med­ical facil­ity. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under attack him­self, from pre­dict­able quarters:

High-Profile Doc­tor in Gaza Called an ‘Apo­lo­gist for Hamas’Fox News
Nor­we­gian Doc­tors in Gaza: Object­ive Observ­ers or Par­tisan Pro­pa­gand­ists?Com­mit­tee for Accur­acy in Middle East Report­ing in Amer­ica
Mads Gil­bert — Doc­tor, Pun­dit, Shill for Ter­ror­ismHarry’s Place Con­tinue read­ing

The News Media’s Lessons From The Obama Campaign

Obama textMy chums — the Car­ni­vores of Journ­al­ism (read in tooth and claw) — are rip­ping apart the les­sons for the news media from the online elect­oral cam­paign­ing of President-elect Barack Obama.

Here’s my mes­sage for the old news media. You missed a rev­enue stream. Auc­tion endorsements.

Don’t be fooled by the SMS and Face­book wrap­pers. This is not the Paypal pub­lic sphere. We’re not all friends and Obama didn’t twit­ter his way to the White House. Con­tinue read­ing