Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee - 1 views
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Iraqi journalists look at screens Tuesday, March 16, 2010, showing the partial preliminary results in Baghdad, Iraq. Dozens of Iraqi journalists waited hours for results in Iraq's election. What they got Thursday, March 18, 2010 was a single CD containing the information and instructions to make copies themselves, prompting a mad dash to the nearest Internet cafe where they paid $1.20 each to find out who was ahead in the ballot coun
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This is a clear example of a government trying to control the information flow with old techniques (only one CD for all journalists) and how the Internet comes into play to provide electoral information. Interesting to compare vs the 2008 US elections, where pundits and commentators could get info from various sites. Can the Internet change results?