Celebrating today’s World Press Freedom Day, Paris-based Reporters sans frontiers / Reporters Without Borders opened their virtual offices in Second Life.
Prominently displayed outside their offices are 34 world leaders dubbed as “predators of press freedom.” You can access biography notecards of each.
A stark reminder to those of us with so much access to so much information are two wall maps: countries that are “Internet black holes” and counties color-coded based on their press freedom.
The organization also inaugarated a journalists' memorial in Bayeux, France yesterday, commemorating the 1,889 journalists killed since 1944 while doing their job. Twenty-four journalists and five media assistants have been killed so far this year. RSF/RWB cites 163 media workers who have perished in the Iraq conflict since 2003.
Teleport over to Hangflame 43,91,91 to visit Reporters sans frontiers offices.
May 3, 2007
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