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• Soldier bloggers bring frontline to the home front

  - 2007-04-15

  SAN FRANCISCO, United States AFP — Growing ranks of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are using written and video online journals known as blogs to share frontline views with loved ones and critics back home. Many soldiers blog to share feelings and experiences with family and friends. ...

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• Blogger–media distrust comes to a head in Iraq

  - 2007-01-08

  A running six-week battle between bloggers and the Associated Press over the wire service's report of sectarian violence in Iraq has ended -- for now. The feud, which got plenty of traffic on the Web but very little coverage in mainstream news outlets, came to an abrupt halt Thursday. That's...

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• Which democratic party?

  - 2006-11-01

  Sherrod Brown, the progressive Democrat running against incumbent Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, has become a lightning rod in the contentious 2006 midterm elections. Brown's outspoken opposition to the Iraq War, his votes against the free trade agreements NAFTA and CAFTA, and his critique of corporations' corrupting influence on...

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• My Life in Combat; Fed up with the coverage in Iraq, soldiers are penning their own blogs. Hollywood can't be far behind.

  - 2005-12-05

  Byline: Tara Pepper Colby Buzzell had spent nearly nine months as a U.S. infantry soldier based in Mosul, Iraq, when his battalion was involved in a ferocious gun battle that engulfed the city. Scrolling through news Web sites the next day, Buzzell found just...

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