Kevin Sites is a CNN reporter on the ground in the Iraq region. He's been contributing blog like reports which have been posted intermittently on boing boing. But now he has his own page where he is audblogging (a service which allows you to post audio to your blog from any phone) from his satellite phone.
I can't find the link now, but I read yesterday that the U.S. military has warned the press that any satellite phone connections they sense from the battlefield will be immediately targeted. Yikes! I better find the link because that sounds a little hard to believe. But anyway, my point is that I don't know how well he'll do once the war (officially) starts. I don't think this is going to let him break any real information. But it's a pretty exciting read (and listen) right now.
OK, I found the targeting reporters link. It was from the excellent back to iraq 2.0. But later he has a bit of an update, saying he "talked to Air Force Lt. Col. Ken McClellan at the DoD" who said "I don't want to say a HARM wouldn't go after those kinds of emissions... [b]ut we're not after reporters." (A HARM is a missle; 'those kinds of emissions' are from satellite phones.)
McClellan also added this memorable (for military linguistic use at least) comment: "I wouldn't stand on the rubble of a command post and light up." Indeed.
Kevin Sites' employer, CNN, has pulled the plug on his blog.
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I can't find the link now, but I read yesterday that the U.S. military has warned the press that any satellite phone connections they sense from the battlefield will be immediately targeted. Yikes! I better find the link because that sounds a little hard to believe. But anyway, my point is that I don't know how well he'll do once the war (officially) starts. I don't think this is going to let him break any real information. But it's a pretty exciting read (and listen) right now.
- jim 3-14-2003 5:08 pm
OK, I found the targeting reporters link. It was from the excellent back to iraq 2.0. But later he has a bit of an update, saying he "talked to Air Force Lt. Col. Ken McClellan at the DoD" who said "I don't want to say a HARM wouldn't go after those kinds of emissions... [b]ut we're not after reporters." (A HARM is a missle; 'those kinds of emissions' are from satellite phones.)
McClellan also added this memorable (for military linguistic use at least) comment: "I wouldn't stand on the rubble of a command post and light up." Indeed.
- jim 3-14-2003 5:28 pm
Kevin Sites' employer, CNN, has pulled the plug on his blog.
- jim 3-22-2003 6:12 pm