The IndyMedia Centers are not "professional journalism" and their online infrastructure is based on group blogging technology like slashdot, or scoop. So I don't know.

Someone in France made some noises recently about legally regulating bloggers out of news reporting, which is part of the same establishment assault on people's information that this FT piece is.

Then again, Colman points out that real first-hand reporting does require hard cash and infrastructure, but most of what foreign correspondents write is bad translations of agency wires and local news.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman