Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject: Bloggers' status and legal rights
Bloggers' status is not clearly defined today, which means that they may not get the same legal protection as other journalists do. There is a debate going on this issue right now. What's your take on this? Are bloggers journalists? Some are, but some are not? Do journalists need to get license to become journalists officially from now?
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject:
Bloggers are hardly journalists. When did writing in a diary become journalistic work? You don't need a lisence to be a journalist but too many people and media outlets are pandering too bloggers who for the most part are real shitty. Now there are A-One but for the most part the bloggers are crap.
Right of the journalist to protect his/her information source. This is not exactly a legal right, but the journalist did have the right in the past practically. However, this is under threat today ...
So in other words a journalist has no special legal rights as everyone else.
Journalists do however have the ethical obligation to protect their sources if they are asked to by the sources. Something like an engineer has the ethical obligation to protect the public and a doctor has the ethical obligation to "above all else, do no harm"
A blogger is for the most part simply average joe writing in his/her journal. The fact that some of these people like to do reporting to is a great source of Editorial entertainment. Blogs for the most part are EXTREMELY biased. I like to read a few stories on the subject in more main stream media before reading blogs, then after a while of reading specific blogs I might start to trust them.
Another thing that I don't like about blogs is that they SUCK at sourceing there information, even when that info is not for a "secret source".
So basically bloggers have no right to special protection. If you say something on a blog that you can't say in the middle of the street in the country that you live, then you should be prosecuted. Since I live in a country that strongly believes in Free Speech, this does not really limit Canadian Bloggers, or give them a need for protection
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject:
What the fuck ever happened to good investigative journalism and credible sources? Fuck come on now these people shouldn't be given anymore attnetion than needed.
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