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Re: [privacy] Josh Wolf Update: Journalist Loses Request for Rehearing
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:26:22 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
On 11/17/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:It's no wonder that the U.S. ranking on press freedoms keep on sliding lower and lower and...What countries, in your estimation, provide safe harbor for people who conceal evidence of violent crime - regardless of their "profession"? I'm curious to know just because I recently caught a glimpse of a story about the US' ranking in the world - but this same group ranked countries like Iran above us, so it wasn't exactly a credible list.
Well, the rankings are somewhat dubious, but the bottom line, I think, still holds that press freedoms in Western countries (e.g. U.S., UK, etc.) are being eroded to a degree where journalists have to fear jail-time for the stories they report on, refusing to identify sources, etc. Case in point: Josh Wolf. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFXfC1q1pz9mNUZTMRAuW+AJ9QGv52w4vTPByNH3GabcPDzBM+NQCfRFZ1 JWGHN4+4+bU1URyQEeCWYwI= =QYnz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] Josh Wolf Update: Journalist Loses Request for Rehearing Fergie (Nov 17)
- Re: [privacy] Josh Wolf Update: Journalist Loses Request for Rehearing Brian Loe (Nov 17)
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- Re: [privacy] Josh Wolf Update: Journalist Loses Request for Rehearing Fergie (Nov 17)
- Re: [privacy] Josh Wolf Update: Journalist Loses Request for Rehearing Brian Loe (Nov 20)