Blogging democratizes news. Or at least, thats what the popular line is. It's easy to see why one would make such a statement. Blogging has grown in such capacity as to given anyone with little technical competency and a lot to say, a public platform accessible to millions of individuals around the world. Along the way, there have been overnight stars that seem to have broken away from established media structures, promoting their analysis or observations as alternatives to traditional media institutions, seemingly presenting proof of this phenomenon.

Recently, with the Iraq war, bloggers in the Iraq have begun to gain prominence in the blogosphere as an alternative source of news and opinions to that of the traditional media. This study utilizes several popular English language Iraqi blogs as a sample, to analyze the concept of blogging democratizing media in the country. It seeks to build a character analysis of each blog and develop an overview of who English language bloggers in Iraq are. In comparatively viewing these blogs, the authors argue that blogging as a form of media in Iraq is not demographically representative of the majority of the population. In that regard, blogging is not necessarily a democratization of media in Iraq, but rather an aristocratization. While it is, perhaps, more representative than traditional media, there does not seem to be a wide enough degree of geographical and demographical representation to indicate a democratic media.