'IraqSlogger': Purposely Missing the Point?

"IraqSlogger was launched this week, after being in beta mode for a couple of weeks prior to that. Today, they put out a story with the title: 'Garden of Eden Recovered; Precious Marshes Saved Thanks to Japanese Govt.'

Contrary to what is expected from journalists, the 'where, who, how, when and why' of the story were glossed over. A non-informed reader would look at IraqSlogger’s story and conclude:

-Saddam’s regime collapsed on its own; there was no American-led liberation (or ‘invasion’ as the 'Sloggers' like to say) of the country. See here: “By the time the former Iraqi regime collapsed in 2003…”"
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Well the Sloggers have done one thing, they have now drawn fire from all sides. Everyone seems to hate them. You just cant buy that kind of endorsements.

Wonderful Story: Planting Hope in Baghdad One Flower at a Time

Hannah Allam, one of the best reporting talents to cover Iraq in recent years, filed this wonderful story for McClatchy Newspapers (formerly Knight-Ridder) today. It is a story about the 'murderous insurgents' who pour kerosene to kill off Baghdad's flowers, and the Iraqi 'botanical insurgents' who go out and surreptitiously re-plant more flowers. It is the story of an Iraqi civil servant, Ja'afar al-Ali, doing his job and not giving up on Iraq. Clearly, to him at least, Iraq is not lost and still worth fighting for. Lovely:"
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