Blogs...blah, blah, blah, blah
It appears that, today, the BBC has suffered a massive shortage of news: and skilled journalists.
In this article, the BBC reports that 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog since 2003. This according to the University of Washington annual report. The article goes on to say that in 2007 three times as many people were arrested for blogging about political issues than in 2006: and more than half of all the arrests since 2003 have been made in China, Egypt and Iran.
Now forgive me, but where exactly is the news value? I have had to read the article a dozen times, but no, still can’t find it. Should I expect a follow up article on how many writers have been arrested this year for airing their political views on paper? How about hardback versus paperback?
Blogging is a 10 year old technology. The closest thing approaching an analysis in this article appears to be; “Oh, and by the way, sometimes you can’t tell who wrote a blog, so like, sometimes, the figures of people who were arrested for speaking out about stuff, but had a blog as well, could be higher. If you see what I mean.”
I think the writer of this news item should be made to have his or her own blog, and have each post edited to death by armies of student journalists.
Either that or go and work for Fox.
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