[liberationtech] Really dumb piece in the Wash Post

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

There's a history of such pieces. See the following: 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012002805.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/opinion/18kristof.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/technology/01filter.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608104575219022492475364.html

A certain lobbyist who works for a certain group of people associated with a certain set of tools goes round to certain journalists and tells them what to write - or at any rate, these pieces read so much like that lobbyist talks, the similarity is rather uncanny. 

R


On Oct 25, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Katrin Verclas wrote:

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/24/AR2010102402215.html
> 
> @citizenlab tweets: implistic WaPo piece on circumvention tech. assumes cyberspace controls solved by magic bullet tech & $$
> and follow=up: For rebuttal of Washington Post comment, pls read my piece with Rohozinski in Journal of Democracy http://bit.ly/d6jLd0
> 
> Oy.  We need a journalism education bootcamp.
> 
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