Saturday, December 6, 2008

The BRAD BLOG : White House Altered War Documents, Says Prof; BRAD BLOG Broke the Story in 2004...

"Today's 'news' that the White House altered Iraq War documents on its website regarding 'the coalition of the willing', is not actually news at all.

The BRAD BLOG broke that story --- the first such scoop of ours to be noticed and picked up by the national media --- back in 2004, prior to the Presidential Election. At the time, the noise we helped cause with the revelations led to the WH being forced to restore terrabytes of documents, audio and video to their website in the week prior to the election. You're welcome."

Blogging: I think We'll keep it.

Proof of online media power? More online journalists imprisoned than print journalists.

Three reasons:

1) The relative anonymity of online journalists means they can be arrested and jailed without much uproar.

2) Print journalists eschew if not outright disdain providing cohesive support for online journalists.

3) Online journalism is a bigger threat to power structures because it works outside those power structures. 

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