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Oregon City Man Arrested for Prostituting a 16 Year Old Girl on the Internet

The investigation began after police detectives learned that the suspect had put sexually explicit photos of the girl on the Internet.

(OREGON CITY) - An Oregon City man is behind bars for sexual relations with a 16-year old girl who he also allegedly sold as a prostitute on an Internet escort site.

Police say 32-year old Justin B. Blackledge was arrested Sunday at 11:30 p.m., by a Clackamas County Sheriff's Office deputy.

More Police Abuse in the Southwest?

He has 12 complaints in his career; a suspension last year for violating procedures and neglecting duty, and a reprimand for unprofessional conduct; how could this El Paso Police officer not have already been deemed a liability?

(EL PASO, Texas) - Members of an El Paso TV news crew were treated like criminals April 20th by a cop who appeared to lose his mind without cause.

He's has been placed on a desk job but he's still wearing his badge.

Op Ed: UNinformed, MISinformed
Internet Responses Now
Distorting Public Opinion

Essential First-Step Neglected Brings Abuse Of Channels.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - “First find out the facts, then figure out what they really mean”. That’s long been the paramount controlling, shaping and most significant step for millions of Americans who respond to the world-famed American“right of free speech”.

Public opinion -- most powerful operational component for democratic consensus on policy and performance for the commonweal-- depends on honest, accurate citizen understanding of realities.

Internet News: Ideal Place for Reporters Who Don`t Mind Abuse

I usually didn't run for the bomb shelters when the mortar and rocket attacks came in Iraq, and dodging bullets in new media can also be a waste of time.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I didn't know while growing up that insults can actually make a person stronger. That's been my experience in recent years as an Internet news reporter. I mean people come up with some things that you wouldn't even imagine.

Some hate mail is from extremist groups in places like Afghanistan, and some of the hate mail is from extremist groups in places like Topeka, Kansas.

Op-Ed: Learning Process
Builds Real Knowledge
From Basic Information

WHY “Informed Opinion” Is Essential in Democracy, Part One of Two

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Everyone has “MY opinion” always ready, right in top-of-head, built from feelings and life experience. But few are "more-than-feeling”: Meaningful opinions are shaped by full information, followed by always-necessary cogitation, to produce knowledge essential for understanding and wise decisions.

That’s unavoidable, inevitable, a necessity for any possible role as responsible citizen, demanded to shape and control our American democracy.

How Does Salem-News.com Compare With Oregon Online Media?

We're movin' on up...and the numbers prove it!

(SALEM, Ore.) - When we started Salem-News.com almost five years ago, I sensed the potential of a great media movement that was about to take place Online, and sure enough it is now underway.

I had an idea then that our strictly Web-based news organization could serve the needs of people here very effectively by providing the latest news and empowering the people of Salem, who live in the shadow of our metropolis neighbor to the north.

Seattle P-I to Publish Last Edition Tuesday

The Seattle P-I's story on their upcoming last day of print publication.

(SEATTLE, Wash.) - The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers.

The company, however, said it would maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation's largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product.

"Tonight we'll be putting the paper to bed for the last time," Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby told a silent newsroom Monday morning. "But the bloodline will live on."

New Media and the Future of Advertising

A media revolution is underway as the nation struggles through tough economic times, but the show must go on.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It's no secret that media is changing fast. Newspapers are having an extremely difficult time holding their heads above water, closing left and right, and yet Internet news is streaming forward at full speed.

Old media has to give up the ghost and make the switch fast, and as for all that newspaper and television news and production people know, the Internet is a different world.

Op Ed: Freedom Attacked:
Hampered, Injured
Via Vocal Malignity

Both press and citizen dialog needs responsibilities.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - “Free speech” is the pure-gold coin of democracy. Like any other valuable coin, this one has two sides: The second-one is responsibility coupled with accountability --deeply engraved wherever the freedom-side is found.

President Obama’s inauguration spells out --in dollar and volunteer depth-- what honest democratic dialog, via the Internet and every other possible channel, can achieve.

Many reporters/recorders agree that his potent mandate --so widely recognized it defies denigration-- demonstrates wit, wisdom and will of the American people as still operational.

Vietnam To Police Blogs With Random Checks, Self-Reporting

Authorities currently block some Web sites run by overseas Vietnamese that espouse views critical of the government, and they often seek to shut down anything seen as encouraging public protest.

(BANGKOK) - Vietnamese authorities plan to police the content of dissident blogs through random checks and self-policing by the country’s blogging community, a senior Vietnamese Internet security expert has told Radio Free Asia.

“There should be a legal corridor to assure better operation of the blogs,” the director of the state-run Bach Khoa Internet Security Center, Nguyen Tu Quang, told RFA’s Vietnamese service. “We’ll manage them by randomly checking—we don’t need to control all the blogs.”

“When we create a legal corridor, determining what is legal and what is a violation of Vietnamese law, the blog community will detect such things on its own and will let the government know of violations,” Quang said.