Yahoo Merging TV News with Ultra-Reality TV

Yahoo is about to introduce its version of the future of news broadcasting, a precursor to future offerings from the newly formed Yahoo Media division. Starting on September 26, veteran war correspondent Kevin Sites will begin broadcasting coverage of the world's war-zones exclusively through the Yahoo Media Group. The first of several TV like programs to be produced by the Yahoo Media Group, Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone will be sent to three dozen different war zones over the next year. Using a backpack and a notebook as his production studio, Sites plans to carry up to 40lb of computer and satellite gear into conflict zones. He wants to show the human side of armed conflicts by speaking to the people most affected by war, innocent civilians. One episode will be based on the destruction seen by a family in war-ravaged Somalia . Sites became world famous last autumn when footage he filmed of a US marine shooting a wounded Iraqi fighter in a Fallouja mosque was aired on NBC news. At the time, Sites felt the NBC report did not inform its audience of the full context in which the event took place, as noted in a November 21, 2004 post to his