I’ve just received the good news that my friend Brian Conley, and most of the other independent media makers and the activists they were documenting, have been released and are heading home.
The so-called “Beijing 6″ were ultimately sentenced, through an extrajudicial proceeding (they did not get to go to court), to 10 days of detainment. [...]
What is a non-citizen journalist? A correspondent from abroad?
I think “citizen journalism” has become a bogus term. (The synonyms that Wikipedia currently suggests are mostly better.)
To me, one can reduce it to either you’re doing journalism or you are not. Journalism does not have to mean professionalized, dispassionate, (allegedly) neutral stuff that one hears about [...]
A declaration that something is not political in itself will highlight the politics of the thing.
The New York Times quotes a Chinese Olympic official, Qu Yingpu, in response to the protests of the Olympic torch tour as saying “This is not the right time, the right platform, for any people to voice their political views.”
His [...]