The term “traditional journalist” is looking more and more like an anachronism these days.
A California appellate court on Friday denied Apple Computer’s bid to identify the people who leaked product information to Mac enthusiast sites, ruling that the state reporter’s shield law protected bloggers and online reporters as well as traditional journalists.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed a petition on behalf of the journalists, called the decision a “victory for the rights of journalists, whether online or offline, and for the public at large.”
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In ruling against Apple, the judges wrote, “We can think of no workable test or principle that would distinguish ‘legitimate’ from ‘illegitimate’ news.”
Source: TechWeb
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