On second thoughts
I had said CNN's forbidding Kevin Sites from blogging amounts to taking away his right of free speech, but now I have second thoughts. I believe its got to do more with conflict of interests rather than crubing free speech. If he were to write poetry I dont think CNN would have objected, but hes covering the war officially for CNN and at the same time blogging about it unofficially. Its like stopping financial analysts from running a private consultancy while working for an I-bank. I believe, in years to come, forbidding employees from blogging will be on the employment contracts, especially for journos.

BBC has taken a more balanced approach, by taking the blogs under the official umbrella or rather they are making the reports appear as if they are blogs. Thanx for the link Vyom