Citizens' Journalism Loses The Apple Case... Big Time

Citizens' journalism loses the Apple case... big time via Buzzmachine So the judge decided that Apple can go ahead and subpoena the the sites th
By John Amato — March 10, 2005

Citizens' journalism loses the Apple case... big time

via Buzzmachine

So the judge decided that Apple can go ahead and subpoena the the sites that reported on its business to find out their sources. Which is to say that bloggers are not protected by California's shield law. Which is to say that this judge just said that bloggers aren't journalists. Which is to say that we just started a program of certifying official journalists in this country. Which is to say that we lose. Big time. read on

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