How do you decide who is a journalist? (kottke.org)

How do you decide who is a journalist? (kottke.org) “Those who advocate a special legal privilege for journalists must accept that anyone who thinks he’s a journalist is a journalist, and figure out how to protect the activity rather than a defined group of people.”

Free Mojtaba and Arash Day

Do like Michelle says… Michelle Malkin: FREE THE IRANIAN BLOGGERS Tomorrow is “Free Mojtaba and Arash Day“–an effort by the Committee to Protect Bloggers to turn up blog pressure on Iran to release two bloggers jailed for expressing their opinions on the Internet.

Howard Dean and the Media

Joshua at Blue Oregon, a Democrat, has a bunch of questions about his party’s new leadership. So do I. BlueOregon: Howard Dean’s Media Blackout The issue is the press blackout that wasn’t. I’ve never understood progressives’ fascination with Dean, who is neither progressive nor fascinating. Okay, I take that back. He is fascinating. In precisely Continue reading Howard Dean and the Media

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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. — Arthur C. Clarke