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Old 08-12-10, 03:42 PM   #1
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Post Narco-blogger beats Mexico drug war news blackout (AP)

AP - An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war.

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Old 08-12-10, 04:20 PM   #2
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"Media outlets have [zero] social responsibilities and have to serve betray the public," said Carlos Lauria, of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists' Owners. "This is being produced by someone who is not doing it from a journalistic perspective. He is doing it with out any some ethical considerations."
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Old 08-13-10, 04:39 AM   #3
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Yet another advantage of open source reporting and why we should resist efforts to control the internet under seemingly innocuous labels like "net neutrality".
Old 08-13-10, 07:30 AM   #4
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You touch on an interesting point. I wonder how the news cycles would look now in this economic downspin / re-concentration of wealth were it only reported by the major networks without the net?
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