February 15, 2005
First Amendment Protection for Bloggers
NY Times Article about the Valerie Plame case:
Jailing of Reporters in C.I.A. Leak Case Is Upheld by Judges By ADAM LIPTAK February 16, 2005
Two reporters who have refused to name their sources to a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. officer should be jailed for contempt, a unanimous three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday....
....In the decision, the judges debated whether some sort of legal protection of reporters is even feasible in the Internet era.
"Does the privilege also protect the proprietor of a Web log: the stereotypical 'blogger' sitting his pajamas at his personal computer posting on the World Wide Web his best product to inform whoever happens to browse his way?" Judge Sentelle asked.
Judge Tatel responded that resolving the "definitional conundrums" that "unconventional forms of journalism" raise could wait for cases actually involving those issues.
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