July 29, 2006
Video-Sharing Sites Unfiltered Images of War to the Screen
From the Huntington News. "Julien created BloggingBeirut.com 18 months ago as a romantic pursuit _ a way to share the beauty of his native Lebanon with a woman he met in graduate school in New York. That relationship dissolved, but last week BloggingBeirut was getting 400,000 hits a day after Julien, who asked that his last name not be published, posted video shot on cell phones of his beloved hometown now ravaged by war.
In a town in northern Israel last week, 16-year-old Guy Naveh posted footage on the video-sharing site YouTube.com that he shot with a digital camera from the balcony of his family's apartment. He wanted friends in other parts of Israel and relatives in the United States to sense the panic people feel when an air raid siren blows. More than 9,000 people have seen Naveh's video.
Video-sharing technology is revolutionizing how people far from the battlefield understand the latest Middle East war. Experts predict the edgy, personalized clips being passed around worldwide soon will influence traditional broadcast news by infusing it with the passion of citizen journalists, who are reporting as rockets crash onto their neighborhoods".
Image left of video on YouTube posted by zah2an.
For more videos search "Beirut", "Lebanon", "Israel" on YouTube .com
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