Posted on 02/02/2012 3:41:43 PM PST by Kaslin
Correct.
Bloggers actually are a few steps beneath the MSM.
Any homeless puke in a public library can write a blog,
while most of the MSM have "sue-able" assets to protect.
Bloggers risk nothing when posting the most ignorant unfounded garbage they can dream up.
There will always be those who want to protect the MSM, and their guardianship of what information and opinions reach the voting public.
It was awfully hard to have a conservative movement, as long as the left controlled all media.
“If Bloggers Aren’t Journalists, Neither Are Many Members of the MSM”
If Pluto is a dog, what the hell is Goofy?
Speaking strictly for myself, I’ll put my reporting skills up against ANY OTHER real reporter in Louisiana, and I’m a blogger.
But the First Amendment does apply to a blogger (we used to be called “pamphleteers”), just as much as The Wall Street Journal.
See the decision here:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=408&invol=665
BRANZBURG v. HAYES, 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
Justice Byron White wrote for the majority, “…the traditional doctrine that liberty of the press is the right of the lonely pamphleteer who uses carbon paper or a mimeograph just as much as of the large metropolitan publisher who utilizes the latest photocomposition methods.”
The ruling declared that as a blogger, Cox was not a journalist and cannot claim the protections afforded to mainstream reporters and news. I happen to agree with his decision, but the case raises the question about what actually defines a journalist.Nauseating.
Bttt.
Justice Byron White wrote for the majority, “…the traditional doctrine that liberty of the press is the right of the lonely pamphleteer who uses carbon paper or a mimeograph just as much as of the large metropolitan publisher who utilizes the latest photocomposition methods.”
Gotta love a guy named Whizzer, especially one who makes it all the way to the Supremes.
If you have such awesome skills, why haven't you been hired by anyone?
Sorry, but the vast majority of bloggers have scant skills and even less viable original material.
Blogs are 94.2% trash.
I think there are other cases as well.
Stop with the actionable slander. Not that I’m saying you started with it.
Funny, I feel the same percentage applies to the quantity of your posts that are pure noise and self-important bluster.
abb does great work. For you to ignorantly slam him as you just did is unacceptable.
1.) I don't need the money.
2.) I do it because I want to do it, not because I'm paid to do it.
3.) No "news" organization in existence today could afford my price - or my independence.
4.) I report the news that no else has the guts to report, usually because others are beholden to the political class.
FOX to MSNBC and inbetween are lazy.
FOX had a good journalist by the name of Major Garrett. He has now gone and FOX minus Greta, Hemmer, Bolling are useless and are the establishment.
Thomas Paine a journalist, politico or equivalent of todays blogger? Could the King shut him up for libel?
Where do you get it from?
The Constitution says the government may not infringe on citizens’ right to freedom of the press. What was the press?
Was it a select group of professional writers? No.
The “press” is a device for making multiple copies of a single document, so that they can be widely distributed.
Freedom of the press, therefore, refers not to a group of people, but to the right of all people to use technology to make possible the widespread distribution of their thoughts and ideas. And yes, Gutenberg’s invention was exactly that — TECHNOLOGY.
That meant that anybody — ANYBODY — could either buy a press, or hire a press owner to publish documents.
This idea that there is a group of people called “The Press” who have special government dispensation to disseminate their ideas and opinions is a complete fiction.
The government has no authority to establish one set of rules for those whom it deems to be “members” or “the press,” or to give such people protections that are not available to ANYBODY else who uses technology to disseminate their idea.
The totalitarian leftists have spent the last hundred years claiming the right to ascribe new political meanings to words, and it is time We the People take the language back.
Impeaching judges who draw indefensible artificial distinctions over “who” constitutes the press would be a good start.
Not all bloggers are alike. You can not put them in the same pot. Some are better then the others
Maybe y'all should get a room and discuss it.
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