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Online Journalists Now Most Jailed Worldwide

Posted by Amanda Terkel, Think Progress at 4:19 PM on December 4, 2008.


"More Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium."
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A new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists finds that "more Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium," reflecting the rising influence of online reporting. Forty-five percent of all jailed media workers -- approximately 56 people -- are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors. "Print reporters, editors, and photographers make up the next largest professional category, with 53 cases in 2008. Television and radio journalists and documentary filmmakers constitute the rest." (HT: Huffington Post)

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Amanda Terkel is Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Deputy Editor for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.


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"reflecting the rising influence of online reporting"...
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Posted by: leTerrassier on Dec 4, 2008 3:22 PM   
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Couldn't it be just as likely that the numbers reflect not so much the rising influence of online reporting, but simply that the internet, with its open access, has many more reporters than print, television, or radio. I'm not making an argument, just playing devil's advocate.

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» Couldn't it be... Posted by: Bliss Doubt
Protect them
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Posted by: kittybrat on Dec 5, 2008 6:37 AM   
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We must protect those who report.

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they cannot can't control them
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Posted by: thealltheone on Dec 5, 2008 9:59 AM   
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Most media/communications corporations are owned by the powers that be, online reporters can not be controlled and the powers that be have discovered the influence and power of the internet.

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YOU DO REALIZE THAT THAT PROBABLY MEANS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO CALL
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Posted by: Raymond Emerson on Dec 5, 2008 9:47 PM   
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for the regulation of the internet. They don't dare not stop us. They fear democracy. Real democracy means we run things. Fake democracy means they run things.

Stop and look. Pat Buchanan wrote a book called "Its a Republic, not a Democracy" if I remember right. As long as they control the "representatives" they run the government.

Our next step is to insure direct democracy. Ross Perot suggested it. He suggested a national initiative petition constitional amendment. We may yet secure sufficient encryption to allow digital voting. It's sure not here now. I could picture us voting on the automotive bailout. We damn sure couldn't complain when we got it wrong.

Proposition 8 was wrong. But it had a lot of money behind it. Polling shows that if it were to be voted on now, it would lose. Four years is a long time, but it needs to be on the ballot again.

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as long as we are talking about the media again...
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Posted by: Lauren on Dec 7, 2008 12:06 PM   
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Here is a love fest, MSNBC's Tom Brokaw officially announced Sunday that Chief White House correspondent David Gregory would be as the next moderator of "Meet the Press." It is pretty amusing to see them swoon over each other so much.

What gives with the adulation of Tim? We never will know. Is David G up to the job of impeachment?

Because if MSNBC doesn't start going after the criminals soon, they sure are going to look like they are involved in a cover up. How embarrassing; not at all the image the corporate sponsors were looking for.

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