Show Notes: Virginia Tech
We changed the segment to reflect the horrible events at Virginia Tech, even at that early stage there was some discomfort at the way media handled the incident. You can hear the archive here
- Student and blogger Bryce Carter joined us. Among other things he was concerned about the images being used by media
- Chris Thomas of Newsvine spoke with us.
- Countey Thomas news editor of Virginia Tech's student online-news service Planetblacksburg.com joined us
- Jane Stillwater spoke about her embed in Iraq and the bombing of the parliament there
- Mohammed Fadhel (not Fasil sorry I misheard when taking his name down) of the Bahraini Journalists Union on the libel trail of blogger Mahmood
- Jeff Ooi on Malaysian bloggers getting together to fight their corner
- Former infrantry platoon commander Seth Moulton on Moulton and Mohammed and the treatment of translators in Iraq
Apologies to Vividora for dropping her and Jenny's interview - please check out her blog it's a very good read. And we'll be talking to blog critic Andrew Keen next week. Questions comments on his critique of blogging and social media very welcome.



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