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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."
Ugh, I despise when journalists get up on the cross and moan about how oppressed they are. I used to have sympathy for this sort of thing, before it was made obvious to all that journalists are mostly of despicable character. Seriously, I used to be a big supporter of press freedom, back before I saw it so ruthlessly abused to serve the political ends of those who run the industry.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I wonder if this is simply a reflection of the sheer number of bloggers out there in the world. Besides let me get on my high horse and say a journalist is a journalist and a blogger is a blogger. They both have their place but a blogger with a few exceptions are not online journalists. They are frickin bloggers. Each have their place and their uses and I am not saying one is better than the other. But they are not the same.
ACK
Just so you know. The middle east is a region of the world which includes many Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. IF you want a capital for a world region whats the capital of the american continent Brazil? Argentina? Canada? (still waiting for the sarcasm tag btw)