Friday, October 17, 2003

Lengthy meditation on journalistic ethics applied to blogging. Good ideas here. How much of a journalist are you, blogger?. Dave Winer says that all bloggers are inherently journalists. I concur but that begs the question, how much of a journalist are you? This may affect your ability to get a press pass, to invoke press shield rules, or get into one of those fancy reporter bars. Mostly, it affects how much readers and sources can trust you. One of the Berkman lawyers said state laws define a journalist many ways, each modified by local case law. Two of the factors many of the laws consider is how much you behave like a journalist and whether you identify yourself as a journalist. <...snip> [a klog apart] 4:11:41 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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