COURT: BLOGGERS PROTECTED LIKE TRADITIONAL JOURNALISTS - $2.5 - TopicsExpress



          

COURT: BLOGGERS PROTECTED LIKE TRADITIONAL JOURNALISTS - $2.5 million in defamation awards overturned - blogger addressed matters of public concern The protections of the First Amendment, the court said, do not turn on whether the defendant was a trained journalist, formally affiliated with traditional news entities, engaged in conflict-of-interest disclosure, went beyond just assembling others writings, or tried to get both sides of the story. ====== The decision is important because noninstitutional, medialike bloggers help to spread so much information, says Washington, D.C.-based expert Thomas C. Goldstein, who filed an amicus brief on behalf of SCOTUSblog, his website covering the Supreme Court. tinyurl/l6fwcza
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:24:48 +0000

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