The Arrest of Radovan Karadzic: NY Times vs. "Finding Karadzic" blog

On July 22, 2008, it was reported that Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader turned on-the-run war criminal, was arrested in Serbia.

The New York Times, in an article entitled "Bosnian Serb Under Arrest in War Crimes," published a lengthy article detailing the nature of Karadzic's alleged crimes and featured quotes from a Hague prosecutor, Serbian president Boris Tadic, a European Union official, Karadzic's wife and others.

True to form, the Times also referred to Karadzic, a man likely responsible for thousands of deaths, as "Mr. Karadzic."  (Clark Hoyt, the Times' public editor routinely discusses this formal custom)

On the blog, FindingKaradzic.blogspot.com, the headline to the same story was: WE GOT HIM!!    The blog post is very brief, summed up in seven sentences and written in the first person ("I started searching for Radovan Karadzic over six years ago.") 

The blog freely shares it's perspective (''the world is a better place") while the NY Times expresses this sentiment through quotes by officials (Richard Holbrooke: "This is a historic event.")  The blog implies that Karadzic is one of "the worst people in the world," while the NY Times consistently and simply states the charges against Karadzic.  The NY Times treats him as innocent until proven guilty while the blog celebrates the capture of a murderer.

Finally, tellingly, the blog refers to Radovan Karadzic as Karadzic.