From JD Lasica: Top 10 assaults on digital liberties
JD Lasica has put together a great summary of the U.S. government's 1984-esque efforts to restrict digital liberties. If you're not aware of any of these, you should be. The most obviously important assault for journalism is the growing restriction of fair use, but everything on the list has the potential to limit development of online journalism, such as podcasting (as just one example.)