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Blogging in the Middle East: License to Differ

August 19, 2009

Bloggers stand out when professional journalists don’t stand up

(CJR) Lawrence Pintak and Yosri Fouda’s assertion that, by defending online writers in the Middle East, Western press freedom groups are undermining journalism in that region is a real head-scratcher.

What’s the premise for that argument? Maybe it’s the notion that ‘bloggers are not journalists’. Or if that’s too sweeping a statement, then maybe the reasoning is ‘only a few bloggers are journalists’.

Author: Robert Mahoney

Source: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/license_to_differ.php

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