[humblegunner]

If Bloggers Aren’t Journalists, Neither Are Many Members of the MSM

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.

[ansel12]

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.

[jessduntno]

“If Bloggers Aren’t Journalists, Neither Are Many Members of the MSM”

If Pluto is a dog, what the hell is Goofy?

[bvw]

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.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[manc]

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.

[jwalsh07]

Thomas Paine a journalist, politico or equivalent of todays blogger? Could the King shut him up for libel?

[Maceman]

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.

[Sam Gamgee]

I am actually unclear why the Press should get special freedoms other Americans don’t enjoy. Why one law for the press and another for the rest of us?

[GOPJ]

In the past, many famous and well-respected journalists had no formal training but honed their craft on the job, in many cases beginning their careers as copy boys/copy girls. Walter Cronkite, once cited as the most trusted man in America, was a college dropout who had a series of newspaper jobs reporting news and sports. Eric Sevareid, Chet Huntley, and David Brinkley started their careers as broadcast journalists but never had journalism degrees.

The liberal MSM and liberal judges will make the call - LIBERALS who blog will be called "journalist". Conservatives will NOT be protected or regarded as journalists... They'll be consistent - unfair to us now - unfair in the future.

[abb]

I'm actually licensed...

[fuzzylogic]

I seriously believe that journalists should be required to earn a license via examination and be held accountable to standards that can be reviewed by a board (similar to lawyers). If they breach the standards they may have their license taken away...and become a blogger.