That Other Country Starting with "I"
Writer Seymour Hirsch, the reporter who uncovered torture at Abu Ghraib, is at it again (today's No. 2-3 buristest person) for writing a piece in the New Yorker (today's most-cited link and most-cited news story) that indicates the Bush Administration is promoting diplomacy on one hand but also developing plans for strategic bombing strikes against Iran in hopes of overthrowing another leader they don't like, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad (today's burstiest person).
Bloggers react
Once he gets through all the ramifications of such an undertaking The Belgravia Dispatch blogger asks a central question: could the current administration even carry out something as strategic as this (given its record for other "strategery," a la Katrina and neighboring Iraq and Social Security and immigration reform)? Is such a thing insane, asks the Gaelic Starover blogger, or does this administration have a thing against bearded Middle Eastern leaders, jokes Norbusiness? Regardless of one's opinion, Hersh's piece has generated quite a few of them, based on BlogPulse's Conversation Tracker.
So which war are people discussing most? The war in Iraq? A possible war against Iran? The war on poverty? A war against immigration? A BlogPulse trend graph looks at the word "war" against those four entities: Iraq, Iran, poverty, immigration:
BlogPulse in the news
MSNBC's Dateline Mank Blog by correspondent Josh Mankiewicz looks at the popular celeb-sighting blog Gawker, which some celebrities think is akin to blog stalking. BlogPulse provides weekly data to "Dateline" for the blog segment.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 10, 2006 03:56 PM
