Israel Attacks Lebanon (12 July 2006-)
Blogs & Views from Lebanon
Though their voices may be underrepresented by the Western corporate media, many in Lebanon are making themselves heard through their blogs. Some use their blogs as a means of letting their friends and family know they're OK, while others report the devastation happening around them, and many are providing their own political analysis of the situation. Speaking of the power of citizen journalism enabled by advanced communication technology, British Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said after visiting wartorn Lebanon, "Every person who has got a mobile phone, every person who can take a photograph of somebody being blown to bits, or a child with a limb missing, is a reporter now." (Added 23 July 2006)