Conveying The War In Human Terms.

American Journalism Review,  June, 1999  by Lasica, J.D.

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The Internet has been a major player in Kosovo coverage.

Within a week of the first NATO bomb's dropping on Serbia, the conflict in Kosovo had been dubbed the first Internet war. While that overstates the case, it's not far from the truth.

Night after night the network news offered a narrow prism of views, along with those ubiquitous aerial photos of NATO's bombing campaign. The Internet, conversely, provided an alternative channel that offered deeper coverage, more interactivity and, most significantly, greater diversity of voices and viewpoints. (See Free Press, May.)

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