Democratisation Of The Media

The issue of the nascent 'democratisation' of what used to be conventional media by the exponential eruption of the blogosphere has - inevitably - come under the spotlight.

In the US, the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet is questioning the legitimacy of granting bloggers an exemption from electoral campaign legislation that would effectively allow direct access to candidates.

Commentary worth a read at Daily Kos.

And over back home, the AFP reports that censored Singaporeans are taking to the internet for free speech. (Of course, recent events have undoubtedly thrown the extent of that claim into question.)

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Anyway. I'm supposed to be in hibernation.


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