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Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Three Blog Stories . . .

Tuesday 7th September 2010, 09.00

Yoani Maria Sanchez Cordero has been named by the International Press Institute as its 60th World Press Freedom Hero.  He is an acerbic critique who informsn people very regularly of the restraints of free speech and expression on the island.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/sep/07/press-freedom-cuba



Friday 3rd September 2010, 13.30

The storm around William Hague and his adviser has enticed a new round of media sneering at political bloggers for their wicked ways. But this isn't just lazy, for reasons I'll explain, it ignores the real elephant in the room: how the national press collude and use the web for their vested interests.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/03/bloggers-william-hague-andy-coulson-media



Monday 9th August, 2010

When Raja Petra Kamarudin, one of Malaysia's best-known bloggers, heard he was to be detained without trial for the third time last February, he decided to flee the country. He was already facing sedition and criminal defamation charges after publishing a string of stories that linked the prime minister Najib Razak and his wife to the gruesome murder of a beautiful Mongolian translator, Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa, in 2006.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/09/raja-petra-malaysia-today-blogger

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