A Strike against Press Freedom

Imagine you are a journalist working for the New York Times and you are working on an international story. You want to check out what foreign papers are saying on the topic, so you start a search to find .... nothing.

That's what's happening at one of the biggest newspapers in Egypt. A recent report indicates that the pro-government al-Ahram paper installed a filter to block many news and web sites from its internal network. That network serves nearly 15,000 staffers, including some 2,000 journalists. One of the sites blocked is blogger.com, which powers this blog and several other ones on Egypt.

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