Reporting, Democracy, Coverage, State of the News

[amilyn]

Should the Government Get Into the News Business? by stoplookingup who, a couple weeks ago, posted about whether the news from Iran was to be trusted following the long-term absence of actual freedom of information. She asks good questions about what happens to a free press, a free distribution of information, when the "news" becomes about selling a product

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[englishlitrulz]

Thank you for the links. The news article reminds me of the attacks on the S. Korean and U.S. government websites. First the attackers were "unknown," then they were a North Korean cyberattack squad, now they're Russian computer programmers behind a new variant of the MyDoom virus.

Can the real source of the attacks please stand up? Or be ferreted out?