According to a recent article in Online Media Daily, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said the site does not currently plan to discontinue its “erotic services” listings, despite renewed pressure from law enforcement authorities triggered by the recent “Craigslist murder.”
In an interview with ABC Nightline’s Martin Bashir, Newmark also said he disagreed that the site facilitates prostitution. “I wouldn’t put it that way; no, I disagree,” he responded when Bashir confronted him with ads that appear to be for prostitution and asked whether the site facilitates such activity.
Internet law experts say that legal action against Craigslist isn’t likely to get very far because Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act states that Web sites are immune from liability when users of the site violate state law.
Loading ...
This week’s 
The Newspaper Association of American (NAA) recently reported newspaper revenue fell almost two billion dollars in the third quarter 2008 – that’s down 18 percent. The loss includes both print and online revenue, also down for the second quarter.
Growing up I consistently had to write thank you notes to my grandparents whenever they would give me gifts or take me back-to-school shopping. My grandfather had a long career as a sports writer for a Pittsburgh newspaper, and he has always believed in the written word. That’s probably part of the reason I went to school for journalism and now work for a magazine. I like to actually hold magazines in my hands and flip through the pages, reading at my leisure. To this day, I still receive and respond to cards and letters from my grandmother.
