To add to my last post....I was driving home from class tonight and decided to turn on little AM radio. The topic for discussion was the situation in Cairo and how reporters were trapped in the country. The on air personality, we will call him Dan, asked his guest, Pat, who is a reporter for WCCO news in Minneapolis, what his thoughts were about the reporters being harassed in Egypt. Here is a brief summary of what I heard Pat say: Cairo is where every reporter wants to be right now; the reporters should feel safe in Cairo because of the presence of cameras and mass media attention the protests are gathering; 141 journalist deaths were reported over seas in 2010; CNN had damaged equipment and could not shoot live footage and ; NBC was shooting its coverage from a hotel room.
The two things I am thinking are: (1) Will the whole world turn into a bunch of animals if our governments try to take our Internet away? (2) This is just reinforcement for my decision not to become a journalist! I know there are more politics involved in the whole Cairo fiasco than just the Internet, but it scares the living daylights out of me thinking that a country would turn itself upside down when the Internet goes out.
P.S. Hats off to all the journalists out there risking life and limb to bring us that big scoop!
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