Quote of the day

"Dubai has an economic threat going on," said Timothy Walters, head of the journalism and mass communications department at the American University of Sharjah. "When a society feels threatened, people who manage it try to regulate the media because they know media has the power to change."

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But there's also this from AP as well:

Police in Guyana say they are looking for bloggers who caused alarm with a false report that a commercial bank in the South American nation had requested a $5 million bailout to avert a collapse.