thank god they are all ok. i was a bit upset at CNN when they advised him to stop blogging. i do understand their point however. but i really missed reading or listining to his updates. i told so many people about his site that even my mother would let me know if she heard him or saw his name on cnn.

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I'm glad they're okay. I've seen a couple of Kevin's CNN videos, as part of my SuperPass subscription -- I cut cable teevee last year. However, I would've received a lot more of Kevin's reports had he been permitted to blog.

You can't even search CNN.com very well to find Mr. Sites.

Thankfully, Phillip Robertson has some fantastic reports from Iraq and Afghanistan at Salon.com -- and easy to find.

Hmm. Here's what I've noted:

1) See Kevin Sites' site. Was very impressed.
2) Saw Kevin Sites' report on CNN TV. He basically says exactly where he is in Northern Iraq, notes that he's travelling with an almost unarmed group of escorts, and oh yeah, there's a bunch of Iraqi's over that hill with bigger weapons.
3) See Kevin Sites' site shut down. Point out that this might have to do with #2.
[skip a few weeks]
4) Watch report this morning about how the information minister of Iraq threatened CNN's bureau chief with "the severest possible consequences" if CNN sends reporters into Northern Iraq. Then watch report from Kurdish police files showing confessions of those who were going to blow up the CNN "compound" with about a ton of explosives.
5) Read this today.

Kevin -- thanks for surviving :-) Can't wait to read the transcript...

--Dan

While I do kinda agree with CNN asking him to stop blogging (hey, they were paying for his time, right?) it seems to me they wasted a really, really valuable opportunity. Why not tell him "here's a bunch of CNN logos to slap on your site, here's some server space and bandwidth, go to town?"

If it's an editorial control issue, they could have easilly assigned a stateside editor to vet his blog postings.

Ahh well. Some day.

A similar event happened to 6 Portuguese Journalists:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,933048,00.html