-It also needs to sustain a more
- coherent
-account. (In the middle of the Iraq war, I read a post on the
-Internet from someone who was at that time listening to a satellite
- uplink
-with a reporter in Iraq. The New York headquarters was telling the
-reporter over and over that her account of the war was too bleak: She
-needed to offer a more optimistic story. When she told New York that
-wasn't warranted, they told her that they were writing "the story.")
-</para>
-<para>
-Blog space gives amateurs a way to enter the debate—"amateur" not
-in the sense of inexperienced, but in the sense of an Olympic athlete,
-meaning not paid by anyone to give their reports. It allows for a much
-broader range of input into a story, as reporting on the Columbia
- disaster
-revealed, when hundreds from across the southwest United States
-turned to the Internet to retell what they had seen.<footnote><para>
+It also needs to sustain a more coherent
+account. (In the middle of the Iraq war, I read a post on the Internet
+from someone who was at that time listening to a satellite uplink with
+a reporter in Iraq. The New York headquarters was telling the reporter
+over and over that her account of the war was too bleak: She needed to
+offer a more optimistic story. When she told New York that wasn't
+warranted, they told her that they were writing "the story.")
+</para>
+<para> Blog space gives amateurs a way to enter the
+debate—"amateur" not in the sense of inexperienced, but in the
+sense of an Olympic athlete, meaning not paid by anyone to give their
+reports. It allows for a much broader range of input into a story, as
+reporting on the Columbia disaster revealed, when hundreds from across
+the southwest United States turned to the Internet to retell what they
+had seen.<footnote><para>