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Is Blogging Journalism?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-yes-it-definitely-might-be-sometimes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the wake of the judge's refusal to extend journalist protections to Think Secret in its case against Apple, the Net is abuzz with commentaries coming to its defense. MacInTouch points to three of them, from CNET's Declan McCullagh, MP3 Newswire's Richard Menta and grassroots journalism pundit Dan Gillmor. All agree that Apple went too far with its case and question the court's decision that Web journalists don't count."

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  1. Was Apple Right? by admsteiner · · Score: 5, Interesting

    See Professor Susan Crawford's piece on this on her blog where she argues the outcome (if not the reasoning) of the Judge's ruling was correct... http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/ 3/6/404732.html

  2. Re:Definately by gimpynerd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It seems to me that while most people don't research their blogs there are some that do.

    The same is true for journalists...most are rather crappy but the precious few that do their job well are those who define their job field.

    In this way bloggers are in fact journalists, albeit unpaid, just some are better than others.