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Online Reporters Now the Journalists Most Often Jailed

Posted by timothy on from the three-hots-and-cot-and-a-beating dept.

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. Is this for REAL? by nulled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People are going to JAIL for speaking their minds? In a blogging sense, this only clarifies that the Internet Blogosphere is being taken seriously. The ones in jail are probably blogging about anti-government related things, probably in countries where people are actually being killed. In countries like the middle-east, cuba or other very rough climated countries. But, the average blogger in UK. US, Australia and etc, blogging about how microsoft vista SUX, do not fit in this category. So, fear not bloggers, oh and BLOG ON.

  2. Re:Henry David Thoreau & Ghandi by ErikZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thoreau didn't have a wife and kids. His job was living in Ralph Waldo Emerson's house.

    It's easy to make a stand when you're taking no risks and no one depends on you.

    --
    Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.