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December 6, 2007
Michael Totten à Fallujah / Michael Totten in Fallujah

Totten fallujah - Photo Hosted at Buzznet

Market Street Fallujah by Michael Totten - Photo Hosted at Buzznet

(photos by Michael Totten)

Quand j'ai interviewé le blogueur de guerre Michael Totten à la Blog World Expo le mois dernier pour cet article sur les blogs militaires, il s'apprêtait à repartir en Iraq, à Falloujah. Son parcours est rare: ce jeune homme de l'Oregon qui n'est ni journaliste ni militaire à la base part régulièrement en reportage tout seul au Moyen-Orient ou embarqué avec des troupes américaines en Irak, grâce aux dons des fidèles lecteurs de son blog.

Ses reportages, comme cette chronique de Falloujah pour le New York Daily News, sont personnels et très différents de ce qu'on lit d'habitude sur la guerre, car Michael Totten, contrairement aux journalistes des médias traditionaux sous pression, peut se permettre de passer des semaines à observer la vie quotidienne avant d'écrire.

When I interviewed war blogger Michael Totten at the Blog World Expo last month for this article on MilBlogs, he was about to return to Iraq, to Fallujah. His story is extraordinary: this young man from Oregon who is not military trained, nor does he come from the journalism world, regularly goes on assignment in the Middle East, sometimes embedded with the troops in Iraq, thanks to donations from the faithful readers of his blog.

His reports, such as this dispatch from Fallujah published in the New York Daily News, are personnal and very different from what you usually read about the war: unlike journalists from traditional medias who are under big pressure to file news stories, Michael Totten can afford spending weeks observing the daily life before putting it in writing.

Pour plus de détails sur ses aventures et sa perception de la guerre en Irak, voici quelques courts extraits de mon interview radio avec lui (en anglais et légèrement édité):

For more details on his adventures and his perception of the war in Iraq, here are a few short excerpts of my radio interview with him (in English, sligtly edited).
  • Michael Totten on what he does differently from the mainstream media in Iraq (mp3)
  • On why he selects less violent war zones to cover now (mp3)
  • On his impressions on how the war in Iraq is going (mp3)

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