In olden days, China only needed to censor the media and expel foreign journalists. This week video footage of uprising in Tibet has been uploaded to YouTube. In Mainland China access to YouTube is down today. For some quirky reason you can’t get your favourite karaoke, pet tricks or scenes of activists being led away in chains (or in a body bag).  This is the bleeding edge of citizen journalism.

On 11 April the Newseum opens in Washington DC. This is a museum dedicated to news and journalism, and is likely to honour journalists killed in the line of action.  Soon they will have to feature the ordinary citizens who place their life on the line to ensure atrocities are witnessed by all the world.See this clip on YouTube.

And realise this - your ability to watch this means you’re living in a democracy.