Milblogs at Columbia University

Today, I was at Columbia University to take care of some paper work for the upcoming semester.   At the home of the Pulitizer Prize, I stopped by to do an interview with members of the Columbia Journalism School.

 

Mainstream journalism has a reluctant relationship with bloggers, but the situation becomes even more ambiguous when military bloggers or milbloggers give the depictions and details that the mainstream either misses or neglects.  At the Columbia Journalism School, this afternoon, we covered life as an embed, censure, bias, freedom of speech, perception and objectivity.  As both a war correspondent and a military blogger, I straddled the line between two worlds.  Journalism students have much theory, but there really is no substitute for actually reporting from the frontlines. 

 interviewers on the spot with some questions of my own.  I found myself eyeing the roof tops for snipers, while talking to the subject of my interview. 

Comments

[Ironside]

And Roger. As a vet going to KU J-school, it's truly an eye-opening experience. No real active hostility yet, but we'll see.