Show Notes - The Hot Zone and Chelsea
It's hard not to be struck by the power of the writing in the blog of our first guest Ramzi as he describes the peculiarity of life as normal in a Beruit bar, on the 17th day of the bombing:
"The bartenders were decorated with "No War" stickers and handed them out to the patrons. A group of foreign expats walked in halfway through the evening. This would have been normal 2 weeks ago, but now everyone turned around and stared. TV crew? Relief workers? 10 minutes later they were already in conversation with a group of Lebanese singles, and you hardly noticed they were there anymore"
Kevin Sites is an award winning professional reporter. But his efforts to document a year of conflict around the world for Yahoo on In the Hot Zone shows how news on the web can transform journalism. Seeing his reports from one conflict after another collated in one place has a powerful impact on the reader that's very different from the 5 minute instant hit in a TV bulletin.
Many have called the conflict in Lebanon a proxy war and Iran is certainly one of those nations with a stake in the conflict. Manchester based Iranian blogger Shahram of Scaniraniac gave us a sense of how Iranians around the world viewed the war. In the blogs at least there's a great diversity of opinion about the actions of the current Iranian regime, Israel and Hizbollah
Away from the conflict in Lebanon NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen spoke to Rhod about his new project bringing together citizen journalist and professional media in New Assignment.net
Chelsea visit Los Angeles and Nikki of the LA based soccer podcast The Treble told us how the footy stars were received in Hollywood.
Lastly blogger Robin Hamman of Cybersoc and the BBC reported from the launch party for a new Web 2.0 company E-tribes. Poor old Robin had to spend the hottest day of the year on the 34th floor of the BT Tower at the glitzy media launch. Oh the humanity.
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Ever seen what the top of the BT Tower looks like? Yeh, sure, it's air conditioned but the sun comes right through the 360 degrees of glass windows and warms it up like a greenhouse!
Thankfully, because of it was so excrutiatingly hot up there, I can honestly say I made Tom Bureau, managing director of C-Net Europe, sweat when I interviewed him for the show.
I've really been impressed with Kevin's take on conflict journalism, not to mention how technology allows him to be so prolific in photography, video, and written reporting. Beyond that, he always gives the sense that it's not as much about the "adventure" of reporting in a combat zone, but finding the stories that would never get told because no one wants to take the risk (especially the corporate media who are content in being embedded with army troops, for example).
I used to be a fan of people like Robert Young Pelton (The World's Most Dangerous Places), but Sites' reporting and approach has really changed my mind.