Now that blogging has quickly become something discussed in journalism schools, and feared by bigwigs that can’t control it (how do you control an individual blogger armed with ideas and a computer who isn’t an appendage of a corporation?) the inevitable is happening:
In some parts of the world bloggers are in as much danger as journalists, particularly in Iran. So now there’s a new blog called Committee To Protect Bloggers.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.