This recent news story illustrates how dangerous it is to be an investigative journalist in an environment when governments are keen to control the nature of POLITICAL REPRESENTATION. Every year hundreds of investigative journalists/photographers/ filmmakers are arrested or killed attempting to report news stories that uncover corruption or challenge representations offered by questionable political regimes. Click on links below to access the recent arrests of a group of Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/01/un-condemns-detention-al-jazeera-team-2014131113141942864.html
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25546389
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6SPuwWQpU0
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