March 19, 2003
Kottke On War
The war (kottke.org)
Weblogs are supposedly the antidote to this. With some very notable exceptions (journo Kevin Sites blogging live from Iraq and this Iraqi's personal weblog), this just isn't true. Most webloggers "covering" the current situation are either peace advocates unwilling to enter into a debate (see above) or too busy whipping each other into a hawkish frenzy in the pursuit of getting linked, being seen, driving up page views, and trying oh-so-hard to scale Mt. Instapundit.
It's a good piece, but this paragraph is just stupid. Just because participating webloggers aren't covering "on the scene" doesn't mean they aren't part of an antidote. Geez, Kottke wouldn't even have heard about Kevin Sites or "Dear Rael" if not for other bloggers. The spread of information unlimited by corporate control is the antidote.