Thursday, April 7, 2005

Blogger thwarts gag order

Canada's long-standing practice of barring news organizations from disclosing what's happening in certain court proceedings is <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5656087.html?tag=zdnn.alert">being tested by Internet bloggers.</A> A Canadian commission that's investigating charges of high-level wrongdoing in the nation's Liberal Party has ordered news organizations not to reveal details from the proceedings, which are open to the public. But Ed Morrissey, a conservative Web logger in Minneapolis, has been gleefully violating the ban by posting detailed reports of the verboten "Adscam" testimony. Public revelation of Adscam, which involves allegations of corruption and illegal campaign contributions, could end the Liberal Party's precarious grasp on power and force new elections this summer.

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