Blogger Arthur Chrenkoff does a highly popular Good News From Iraq post regularly. Aside from being read on his site, it’s linked all over, applauded in some quarters, denounced in others and also runs in the Wall Street Journal.
He recently decided to do an experiment: he decided to study the coverage and see how negative it is. And here’s what he found.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.