No, really, where?
Earlier today Walde sent me email saying “Hey they’re talking about your Raed thing on CNN right now”.
By the time I opened his email and clicked on the link he sent me, it was a 404.
Searching at Google news, CNN definitely did have a story earlier, but it has since been erased. Right now that search returns this snippet
CNN – 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A mysterious Iraqi who calls himself Salam Pax, writing
a Web log from the heart of Baghdad, has developed a large Internet following …
You can also search at CNN to see the headline. But I don’t know of any way to get to the full story if CNN has erased it. Google News doesn’t have a cache, does it? Anybody have a copy of the story?
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The people on the McNeil news show were talking about it too last Friday. Brooks of the Brooks & Sheilds political analysis mentioned it.
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And an interesting story in the New Yorker about him today. Including that he has corresponded (via regular mail) with a webloger in NY.
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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0%2c1294%2c58206%2c00.html
Wired explains the erased CNN story.