Mediagazer: Fifth Estate, Censorship Battles at Dubai's Arab Media Forum (Magda Abu-Fadil/The Huffington Post)

7:05 AM ET, May 17, 2010

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Fifth Estate, Censorship Battles at Dubai's Arab Media Forum — Citizen journalism is the fifth estate and media censorship is an exercise in futility, experts said this week at Dubai's 9th Arab Media Forum despite objections from traditionalists resisting the inevitable.