Bloggers Are Journalists Too
posted by:Jason Millar // 02:10 PM // June 01, 2006 // Digital Democracy: law, policy and politics
In a recent ruling a California court decided to block Apple Computer Inc.'s access to the identity of a blogger's source. The blogger had published information about the company's products in development (information the company guards famously), which had been leaked by an insider. The court decided that bloggers and journalists should receive the same protections owing to the fact that "in no relevant respect do they appear to differ from a reporter or editor for a traditional business-oriented periodical who solicits or otherwise comes into possession of confidential internal information about a company".
