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Has been going on for almost a year Guardian hands 20 reporters iPhones for added video coverage http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/guardian-trials-iphone-video-reporting/s2/a549679/

I mean how far they are willing to go with this?

Er, that's the whole point ... Australia says we have no reason to so US collects an indictment that contains the sensitive/classified materials and prepares to see Assange in Australian court. If the US wants to make a martyr out of him, let them ...

In other news, Assange is suffering a major sense of humour failure over the Guardian publishing details from the leaked police report into his case.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/assange-turns-on-the-guardian-over-assault-case-coverage/s2/a542064/

If you're very, very quiet and listen very, very carefully, you might be able to hear the world's tiniest violin playing for Assange. ;-)

Corrupt government(s) already passed laws over the past several years that make it almost impossible to jail anybody for corruption and similar charges,... [but] still looks corrupt because evidence is being published

Too true. Which makes the Icelandic governments IMMI move to give safe harbor to free press initiatives like these examples all the more critical going forward.

IANAL - The UK laws on libel are that the truth trumps all, with quite a few exceptions.

There are injunctions to protect crime victim's privacy (which I agree with to some degree; if I was sexually abused or raped I would think I'd have the right not to have the entire country know the details).

There are laws on privacy and laws on public interest, and neither actually takes precedence over each other. It's basically up to a judge to decide... meh.

However, there is a growing trend of "super-injunctions", which prevent even the mention of something happening. The recent John Terry fiasco was one attempt to get one of these, which failed, and resulted in the judge deciding the entire story could be reported in full. I've no idea why this was put under an injunction in the first place, but those are the privacy laws.

I'm most worried about the gagging orders placed on newspapers regarding things like the Carter-Ruck Ivory Coast toxic waste. The Guarian

Illegal tapping of newspapers in the NL:

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/07/09/nisnews-nl-dutch-newspaper-suing-state-for-phone-tapping-journalists/

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2009/10/court-intelligence-service-illegally.html

The Amsterdam court has determined that the General Intelligence Service AIVD broke the law of freedom of press by tapping the phones of journalists of the Telegraaf daily

What you get with that scenario is news written by hobbyists, which is not necessarily bad, but they are only writing about what they find interesting. Which explains why Wikipedia has more information about He-Man and the Masters of the Universe than string theory.

And besides, the pay in journalism is shitty enough now, you're not going to get very skilled writers/researchers/thinkers for part-time wages. Unless you outsource reporting to India, which has already been done (http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story3306.shtml)

But people want news now, they want it accurate, and they want it free. Just remember you get what you pay for.

Great isn't it. Maybe Rickys Ego has just got just that little bit too big.

I really hope this bombs big time, however it's likely to be a comfortable success.

According to

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1665.shtml

380,000 people downloaded his first podcast from guardian unlimited, later shows where less successful and more people prefered to download an individual episode than decided to subscribe.

looks like the first series is available as a torrent in the usual places.

each show is about 15meg in size.

However you might try the BBC's website for some alternative shows to download for free. Radio2 and Radio4 have some pretty good shows available.

Plenty of radio stations stream shows from station websites.

I'm pretty sure slashdot readers can list thier favourite
shows and where they are available legal and free.

how many subscribers does he need to make this subscription viable 2000? is $14,000 a month enough...
I'm hoping his subscription based show fails just because if it doesnt we will see more of this.

I guess if your an idiot with more money than sense you might subscribe and get the 5 minute advert free, I just wonder how many idiots are signing up right now.

Picked one at random from the search list...

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story380.shtml

"It bears repeating that the expression in those documents does nothing to advance the underlying values of freedom of expression," said commissioners Claude Pensa and Reva Devins.

Obviously freedom of speech was taken into great consideration. In the end it was determined that this was not expression, but a deliberate attempt to promote hatred.

So, your point is irrelevant in this case, at least. Balance in judgement is required in complicated cases such as these.

I'm not going to go through every finding, but instead challenge you to find one that actually supports your claim.

Hold it. You're saying news organizations bow to the entities that fund them. So by your logic, the BBC is a tool for the government. Is that any better?

And just because they don't rely on advertising does not mean they don't cost people money. The average UK household pays £116 a year for it. That might be a free alternative for those outside the country, but not to those the BBC is designed to serve.

Now there's definitely not a 1:1 match on any of those, but it makes you think about the "shades of gray" argument....

Don't forget Salon.com...

I browse the article lists, and I see dozens of articles critical of the current conservative administration, without the balance of supporting articles. I am not surprised that they can't get enough support from the American public to stay in business.

On top of that, God forbid that these companies move OUT of California & New York City to somewhere with affordable costs of living... kiss Gov Davis and his high taxes goodbye. Offices: San Francisco ... 41 East 11th Street ... I mean really, you run a website, it could be sourced out of Arkansas and noone could tell. Rest in peace.

These types of links are called deep links .

There has already been quite a lot of controversy regarding deep links, dating all the way back to 1999.

In fact, one major free website hosting company, whose name escapes me at the moment, does not allow you to deep link to their members' pages. Instead, you are forced to go to that member's home page first (I imagine that they are checking for referers or some such thing).

Clearly, deep linking is beneficial, but some companies just don't get it.

I wonder if this loophole is mandated by the CALEA, or under the PATRIOT act, or if the FBI/FCC will leverage the CALEA to encompass de facto hiding of snooping devices... I doubt mcAffee will stand up to the pressure of the FBI slapping an interfering with an investigation charge on them... Not that the FBI would stoop to such strong arm tactics... Welcome to 1984...