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Online Reporters Now the Journalists Most Often Jailed

bckspc writes "The Committee to Protect Journalists today released the results of its annual survey of journalists in prison. For the first time, they found more Internet journalists jailed worldwide than journalists working in any other medium. CPJ found that 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors. Their chart of journalists jailed by year is also interesting."

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  1. Re:Is this for REAL? by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Funny

    RIGHT ON

    I think I've got a HARD ON

    And I'm gonna ROCK ON

    Keep on coming on COME ON

    On and on and on and on til the BREAK OF DAWN

    I'm done.

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  2. Re:Is this for REAL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In countries like the middle-east

    What's the capital of the middle-east again?

  3. Re:Is this for REAL? by hailukah · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's the capital of the middle-east again?

    Iraq, that's where the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center are from.

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  4. Re:knowing their rights by davester666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It could also be because it's less likely for a 'real' newspaper, with lawyers on-call, to be standing behind the blogger. Hell, there's more of a time lag for somebody to notice that a blog isn't getting updated than there would be for a reporter that stops checking in.

    And yes, for more totalitarian states, if you part of the 'real' press [tv, print], your organization generally keeps you toeing the line, as it's not just your neck if you step over it. If you're a blogger, it's more of a proofread/publish it yourself, and then get a reaction. If the reaction is for the police to show up at your door, it's too late...

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  5. Re:yebbut - this isn't what most journo's do by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    China is jailing bloggers, not journalists.

    That's because they've already executed the journalists.

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