TV and the Web Offer Live Access— For Better or Worse

By Andrew Trotter

In a double- edged development that evokes mixed feelings among educators, the snazzy technologies that many U.S. classrooms now boast are allowing students unprecedented access to the face of war.

All-day news channels via classroom TVs and the Internet are replenished, sometimes moment to moment, with images and eyewitness descriptions of the U.S.- led war in Iraq that many students find riveting.

Equally fascinating are "Web logs," or "blogs," published online as wartime diaries by soldiers and civilians in...

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