I’m blocked!
Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 9:23pm. #
A while back, I posted about journalists, in my view, not doing adequate research into a story before printing it.
I discover today that it’s not really journalists’ fault: the computer network of one national newspaper, at least, has extremely restricted access and can’t even see… this website. “Yes, sorry,” said the journalist I was chatting to, “there’s a really fierce firewall here”.
I’ve no idea what this website does that means that a major newspaper wishes to block access - unless it’s related to blocking Media UK which would be an odd decision too - but I’m pretty amazed at that. Reminds me of my days running Media UK as a limited company, when the internet access was so slow (128k ISDN line, shared between 30 people) that it was often quicker to go down the road to the internet cafe.
Anyway, perhaps I’m being a little harsh on some journalists - not their fault if the tools to do their work can be witheld like that. It does explain a whole heap, though: if they can’t see little blogs like mine, then what else can’t they see?
Martin said at May 24th, 2007 at 10:59am 
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