As a former war correspondent and believer in bottom-up democracy I've found myself almost addicted to watching the popular social-media linked uprisings of the Arab masses along with Libya's rebellion turned to war.
Alongside the media-fueled uprisings in the Middle East, the deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya last month shined a bright light on the issue of how to ensure -- and protect -- a free press around the world.
Mr. Feqy, the chief propagandist and a friend of the Mubarak family, aggressively defended the regime on state-run media during the uprising.
In the deadliest period for the media since the uprising in Syria began, at least three citizen journalists have also been killed in recent days, in an apparent attempt by the regime to prevent news emerging from Homs.
The incident comes six weeks after a rogue police officer attacked key government buildings in a helicopter, having issued a similar call via social media for an uprising.
On the now hoary question of the role of social media in the uprisings, Qassemi says that Facebook, Twitter and other forms of digital media helped make protests and uprisings happen "more efficiently": I think that the revolutions would have happened anyway but I think social media was a tool, a mobiliser, a conduit, that people found each other through.
The role of social media in Egypt's uprising, the war over smartphone operating systems and why we are running out of internet addresses.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented at least 49 detentions, three serious injuries, and 11 assaults on the media since the Libyan uprising began in January.
The internet roared, and the politicians listened, reminiscent of the popular uprising against media consolidation in 2003 proposed by then Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell, the son of General Colin Powell.
Mr. Gingrich repeated the criticism on Tuesday, calling the issue over Mr. Limbaugh "the last desperate effort of the elite media to smother an uprising by diverting us into any possible fight".
