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Bloggers, Surveillance and Obama’s Orwellian State

8 pointsby wikiburneralmost 11 years ago

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greenyodaalmost 11 years ago
Near the end of the article, Time Magazine, that bastion of the establishment media, gets in their dig at the bloggers:<p><i>&quot;But as citizen journalism – people without an official press affiliation reporting on personal blogs – becomes more popular, the way the military and intelligence community is reported on could shift. Random bloggers need not follow the professional standards by which journalists abide.<p>Matthew Pinsker, a professor of history at Dickinson College, pointed out that this “new” form of journalism is a throwback to previous models that did not value objectivity and impartiality. In some ways, bloggers use the same practices of 19th Century pamphleteers, where anybody with a hand-crank could stand on a corner and shout to a group of people.<p>If these bloggers can’t hold themselves to the same standards of journalists in the 20th Century, “maybe the Obama administration is justified in pursuing leakers in a harsher way,” Pinsker said.&quot;</i>