how much money do you need to make? if i offered $.o1 for a story or video or a block of 10 videos . would that make you a paid journalist?
On 10/18/07, Irina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > they can try to define it however they want but bloggers report the news > and > thats what journalism is money or not see this article in the post today > > *Crackdowns On Bloggers Increasing, Survey Finds* > > By Nora Boustany > Washington Post Foreign Service > Wednesday, October 17, 2007; A14 > > Government repression in some countries has shifted from journalists to > bloggers, with the vitality of the Internet triggering a more focused > crackdown as blogs increasingly take the place of mainstream news media, > according to Lucie Morillon, Washington director of the advocacy group > Reporters > Without Borders< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Reporters+Without+Borders?tid=informline > > > . > > "Countries that were not sentencing journalists to prison terms anymore > have > been doing it these last months for bloggers. This is the case in > Egypt< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/egypt.html?nav=el>and > Jordan," she said yesterday as the group released its sixth annual > Worldwide > Press Freedom Index <http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/index_2007_en.pdf>. Egypt > ranked 146th and Jordan 122nd in press freedom among the 169 countries for > which data were available. > > Reporters Without Borders said major industrialized countries, including > the > United States, made slight progress, moving up several notches, with the > exception of Russia< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/russia.html?nav=el>. > Iceland< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Iceland?tid=informline > >topped > the list for press freedom in the survey, and > Eritrea< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Eritrea?tid=informline > >ranked > last. > > While not all press freedom violations were known in the countries ranked > second and third from the bottom -- North > Korea< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/korea.html?nav=el>and > Turkmenistan< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Turkmenistan?tid=informline > >-- > "Eritrea deserves to be at the bottom," the group said. Eritrean > President Isaias Afwerki has banished privately owned press outlets and > jailed the few journalists who have dared criticize the government, it > said. > "We know that four of them have died in detention and we have every reason > to fear that others will suffer the same fate," the group added. > > Most democracies improved their ranking, with the United States moving up > to > 48th place from last year's 53rd, Morillon said. > > The reason the United States did not make the top 30 is because > videographer > and blogger Josh Wolf spent almost eight months in jail for not turning > over > video footage of a demonstration in San > Francisco< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/San+Francisco?tid=informline > >and > because the confidentiality of sources is under continued attack, she > said. Cameraman Sami al-Hajj, from al-Jazeera satellite television, is > still > being held without charges at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo > Bay, > Cuba < > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/cuba.html?nav=el>, > and journalist Chauncey > Bailey< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Chauncey+Bailey?tid=informline > >was > killed in > Oakland< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Oakland?tid=informline>, > Calif.< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/California?tid=informline > >, > after his coverage made him a target, she added. > > Outside Europe< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Europe?tid=informline>, > no region has been spared censorship or violence toward journalists. > > "We are particularly disturbed by the situation in > Burma< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Myanmar?tid=informline>," > Reporters Without Borders said. "The military junta's crackdown on > demonstrations bodes ill for the future of basic freedoms. . . . > Journalists > continue to work under the yoke of harsh censorship from which nothing > escapes, not even small ads." > > China< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/china.html?nav=el>was > at the low end of the index, in 163rd place. "With less than a year to > go to the 2008 Olympics, the reforms and the releases of imprisoned > journalists so often promised by the authorities seem to be a vain hope," > the group said. > > Concerning Uzbekistan< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Uzbekistan?tid=informline > >(160th), > Reporters Without Borders said it feared a wave of repression would > target the handful of independent journalists left in the run-up to the > presidential election in December. > > In the Palestinian territories (158th), the threat has changed, according > to > Morillon. "Two years ago, it was coming from the Israeli forces shooting > at > Palestinian reporters. These days, the main threat comes from internal > conflicts and the rivalry between > Fatah< > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Fatah+Organization?tid=informline > >and > Hamas < > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Hamas?tid=informline>," > she added. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
