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Also, there are some nice gems in the article like the following comment by Sandra Baron, executive director of the Media Law Resource Center and a media-law attorney: "What people used to post on a bathroom wall can now be seen by millions." People who write on bathroom walls are dirty vandals with questionable ideas about what is and what is not sanitary. The implication here in the way that this quotation is being used by M.P, comprar Xenical baratos. McQueen implies that bloggers and people who use social media are no better than the bathroom vandals who have plagued society for quite some time.
I don't know if this was the conscious intention of this article, but the underlying tone and implications made by this article are very similar to multiple recent stories that I've been reading about bloggers written by people who have every reason to fear, hate, and want to undermine the authority of bloggers. The message is very much: "Whatever you do, citizen journalist, don't get into blogging. You might get sued for it. And if you ignore our warning, then you're no better than people scribbling for a good time call messages in dirty bathroom stalls."
Also, note the response to this article from yesterday which contains a perhaps somewhat related anti-what's-popular premise.
In the words of Public Enemy: "Don't believe the hype!" .
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