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The Facebook poster wrote on one of the Meligy’s support sites: “AHMED got released . . . .”
By whom?
From where?
My source says Meligy has no Internet access but his phone has been on . . . .
I don’t like this story.
Of course, I’m happy to hear of a fellow writer’s renewed presence in the world, but this is also signal of the shortcomings of the remote blogger’s “second row seat to history” in journalism: it is a good position from which to provide commentary.
For reporting, it stinks.
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I found an answer here:
I can’t tell you if it is accurate or not. I simply googled and found it.
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Ours is a brave new small world: Ahmed, Emad, an official from the Committee to Protect Journalists, and I are “Facebook buddies”. Talk about “all being in it together!” However, it is also a layered world and complex. An arrest anywhere having to do with freedom of speech — an absolute bedrock concept in the development and recognition of the dignity of man — signals an issue larger than its participants. The whole world, whether of the open democracies or in regions grinding away beneath autocracies, has interest in such an arrest.
On the other hand, these stories also interact with and involve private lives, and they’re not always so clear. On this issue, I’ve chosen to demur. However, I would admit the Facebook-related elements in the debacle also relate to real space social values. I transpose here some of what I compose in the Facebook nexus (the FTAC category on this blog), but I don’t want to tell tales out of Facebook as issues involving acquaintance, friendship, collegial relationships, loyalties within circles (a big theme in conflict arenas), privacy and propriety come to the fore.
Basically, I haven’t the desire to navigate the story from the virtual inside or, also virtually, mosey around it. From a journalism standpoint, something happened, and journalists do check the efforts of peers. Where the drama or stakes or signal made by a story have weight, curiosity becomes a demon.
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