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The Death of the Newspaper
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| Why does the newspaper deserve to be saved? Just because they have been
| around for a long time? That's not a good enough reason for me. Or the
| arguments that society will somehow be lessened by their absence or be less
| informed without them is arrogant and presumptuous.
|
| I am sorry to say that most newspapers do not deserve to be saved, yes even
| the one in my hometown. They have become no more than mouthpieces for their
| owners and editorial staffs most of the time. They are more concerned with
| molding public opinion than informing them.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/115710/index.html
Coppers arrest bloggers for libel
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| INSPECTOR KNACKER OF THE TOKYO YARD has arrested 18 people for defamatory
| posts on a comedian's blog alleging he was involved in a killing.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/854/1050854/coppers-arrest-bloggers-libel
Recent:
Good-Bye PC Magazine
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| Today, almost all of my work appears online first. I’m fine with that. Still,
| I got my start with now long gone print publications like Byte and
| PC/Computing. Seeing PC Magazine, the most popular of all the print PC
| publications leave is like seeing an old friend moving to another country. I
| know he’ll still be alive out there online, but it just isn’t going to be the
| same.
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http://practical-tech.com/business/good-bye-pc-magazine/
Related:
Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy protection
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| Print and Web publisher Ziff Davis Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
| protection on Wednesday, citing declining advertising revenue and
| subscriptions as contributing factors, according an Associated Press report
| Wednesday.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9887337-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Breaking: Wikileaks Missing
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| Breaking News has just learned that Wikileaks — the website utilized to post
| materials obtained from Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin's
| personal Yahoo mail account — is, for undisclosed reasons, no longer
| available online. The extent of the outage is not currently known, thought it
| appears all mirrors of the site are offline, including domains for the United
| Kingdom, Belgium, and Christmas Island.
|
| We have been unable to identify the source of the outage, though the internet
| is alive with rumors. Paramount among them is the obvious and expected
| suggestion that U.S. law enforcement — who are known to be investigating the
| incident — has shut down the site. However, Wikileaks is hosted by Swedish
| provider PRQ — notorious for employing a "no questions asked" policy towards
| its customers — and U.S. authorities would lack the jurisdiction to take
| action against PRQ.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/breaking-wikilinks-missing
Wikileaks Shutdown: Censorship Is Censorship
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| If Wikileaks were a print publication, the injunction that has shut down the
| site would be unthinkable. Back in 1931, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a
| Minnesota law that allowed the closing of any "malicious, scandalous and
| defamatory" periodical. This court, by contrast, has not only barred future
| publication of the documents at issue but elected to put Wikileaks out of
| business.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61873.html
Free Speech Advocates Mount Legal Battle to Unchain Wikileaks
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| In Bank Julius Baer & Co., Ltd v. Wikileaks, et al, the plaintiff claims that
| the posting of certain documents to the Wikileaks site violated Swiss and
| Cayman Island bank secrecy laws.
|
| Judge Jeffrey White ordered domain registrar Dynadot to disable Wikileaks.org
| in response to Julius Baer & Co.'s complaint. The groups behind the request
| to lift the injunction claim that it violates the First Amendment.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61876.html
WikiLeaks Under Fire
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| The transparency group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire.
| The main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a
| restraining order relating to a series of articles and documents released by
| WikiLeaks about off-shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The
| WikiLeaks whistle blower, allegedly former vice president of the Cayman
| Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, states in the WikiLeaks documents
| that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from
| around the world
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/18/043211&from=rss
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