Bloggers Going to Prison: Film at 11

The Committee to Protect Jounalists has reported that 45% of the journalists imprisoned are Internet based, meaning that you are more likely to be jailed if you are a digital journalist than a Print or TV one.

See Ars Technica graphic below:



Now I can see a lot of resons for this -- one being that Internet journalism is largely citizen journalism -- without legal departments to censor the skank comments.

But whether explainable or not, it is a troubling trend in that Internet journalism is the only category not dominated in the US by five media giants. Silencing this channel would strike a terrible blow to having a truly informed society.

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