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Do you trust the media? Your comments LIVE

Kevin Anderson | 16:48 UK time, Wednesday, 3 May 2006

We're broadcasting live today from the in London. Graham at : "Who is the 'we' in WeMedia?" The we is you on World Have Your Say.

We'll be talking about trust and the media, but also about recent events in Iraq. You've been telling us about trust in the media, or lack of it for the last few days. Leave your comments here.

We started off talking about a ''.

"We are getting more and more used to this news," Ariz told us from Baghdad.

Hassan joined us using a VoIP line from Baghdad.

It looks like Iraq is moving backwards in the last few months. ... I am just watching Iraq fall apart.

Ren, an Iraqi in the UK, said that she gets her information on Iraq from many sources, the mainstream media as well as blogs being written by Iraqis.

Chris Abraham writes the blog . He keeps tracks over 750 feeds. I'm keeping track of a lot of different media sources.

Salam Adil writes the Iraqi blog roundup for the global blog network . He said that blogs update every couple of days.

He pointed out that an Iraqi blogger posted a couple of days ago how she found a body on her front step. Salam said:

It becomes a drip, drip, drip

Online, some people following the conference were chatting. One chatter said:

the thing is, does anyone care that 10 people died in iraq, 10 people die each day in iraq, it's war it happen

Do you care?

And another person chatting on IRC:

This isn't really a conversation; it's just a bunch of comments.

As I was watching the IRC chat, one of the chatters there, Angelo, noted that there had been 8.1 magnitude earthquake. Immediately, someone asked if anyone had contacts in Fiji. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website says the earthquake .

It was quickly blogged about here.

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