DRCNet Joins the Blogosphere With New "Prohibition and the Media" Critique 12/17/04

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DRCNet executive director David Borden has joined the blogosphere with a new "Prohibition and the Media" web log. The purpose of the blog, which can be accessed at https://stopthedrugwar.org/blog/ online, is to provide daily critiques of mainstream news media reporting on drug issues. Specifically, our Prohibition and the Media blog will deal with situations in which prohibition itself is an integral part of the problem -- drug trade violence, futile drug busts, environmental ravages from the illicit drug trade, public health disasters such as overdoses, etc. -- by pointing out articles that report on the consequences of prohibition but which do not (for the most part) identify them as such. (We're not at this point blogging on the full range of drug war issues as we report on in this newsletter, though perhaps we will in the future.)

Borden's first "practice" entries deal with media reporting on a massive cocaine seizure in Philadelphia; a mass arrest of drug trafficking suspects in Arkansas; a shootout between police and a suspect in Indiana; and a set of meth lab stories from different parts of the country. We are still learning how to use the blog software, and so we have not yet added links to other blogs or web sites or customized the format, but we will be doing so. Also, we are in discussions with other organizations about ways they might participate in this effort as well -- in keeping with our philosophy of coalitions and partnerships -- but that is still a work in progress.

In the meantime, though, the blog is there, and you are invited to participate in the discussion, send a letter-to-the-editor, or just read. We are excited to be able to provide daily updated content on our web site for the first time. And we are excited that this project will in effect increase our range of reporting to include types of articles on which Drug War Chronicle does not typically focus. Again, visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/blog/ to check it out; we look forward to interacting with you there.

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Issue #367 -- 12/17/04

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