Jeff Jarvis looks at the flurry of media coverage around the sessation (for now) of Josh's Kurdistan blog. Worth quoting for a bit.
BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
As Howard Sherman puts it, another one bites the dust: Now Time Inc. has instructed freelancer Joshua Kucera to stop posting to his personal weblog:My editors have demanded that I stop posting to this site until the war ends. And they pay the bills, so what can I do. Thanks everyone for reading, and I hope to be back here soon. Peace, Josh.Just this morning in Matthew Rose's Wall Street Journal piece (below), a Time spokesperson said -- wisely, it seemed: "Time.com only asks that Kucera file to Time first, then he can blog away." Oh, well.
Add that to CNN's Kevin Sites being told to stop blogging by CNN.
We smell a sad trend.
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