1st Amendment Victory! Court says Bloggers = Media for First Amendment Libel Law Purposes: The protections of the First Amendment 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 a story. As the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable: “With the advent of the Internet and the decline of print and broadcast media … the line between the media and others who wish to comment on political and social issues becomes far more blurred.” volokh/2014/01/17/bloggers-media-first-amendment-libel-law-purposes/
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:19:59 +0000
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