Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Cracking down on Bloggers
The current events article I found is from the Washington Post tech area. I thought it was an interesting article. Basically its saying how now normal media outlets are becoming more and more having their place taken by blogs and that sort of internet media. To go along with the rise of blogs many countrys are cracking down on blogs and less so now on conventional journalists. There are rankings that show how free a countrys press is and belive it or not the U.S. only comes in at number 48. The reason the U.S. didn't make the top 30 is because a blogger named Josh Wolf was held in jail for 8 months for posting a video on his blog of a protest in San Francisco. Currentley some countrys out to get bloggers and sending them to prison are Egypt, Jordan, North Korea, Turkmenistan, and Burma. With a new voice which blogs have provided, new laws come along with it. Bloggers to many are looked at as a new type of journalist and the censorship goes along with it. The article also says that in many of these countrys a journalists fate in jail winds up in their death.
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A good post. Don't forget to spell-check.
It is hard to believe that we are so far down on that list. We do have a free press here, especially online. A couple of recent incidents have threatened our reputation as a center of press freedom.
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It is hard to believe that we are so far down on that list. We do have a free press here, especially online. A couple of recent incidents have threatened our reputation as a center of press freedom.
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