Tracking

murph the surf (murph@interport.net)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:52:40 +0100

This is from an interview with Tom Keenan by Geert Lovink at the Hybrid
Workspace and posted on Nettime ( http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/):

>TK: It is interesting that this very weekend we see once again the return
>of the international news media to Bosnia in the days following the arrest
>of one indicted criminal and the killing of another. The purest indicator
>being the return to Sarajevo of Christiane Amanpour of CNN. There is the
>story that in the Central Operations Room of the Pentagon there is a map,
>with little pushpins, to keep constant track of Christiane Amanpour. As a
>military event, the location of this reporter is considered an item of
>national security.

Are they using a GPS system to track her, her own CNN reports or are there
reporters reporting on the reporter, following her around the world and
creating a kind of meta-journalism.

Robbin Murphy
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