Troubling Precedent: NJ Court Says Bloggers Are Not Journalists
*I know it’s from Andrew Breitbart, but thought this was worth posting anyway*
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The Garden State has a shield law for journalists, meaning the government cannot force reporters or opinion writers to reveal their sources. There is nothing more vigorously defended among journalists than the right to keep secret ones anonymous sources in service of the publics right to know. The decades-long secret identity of Deep Throat in The Washington Posts Watergate exposés is the standard of that journalistic principle.
But a New Jersey state appellate court last weekruled that a woman named Shellee Hale is not a real journalist, but just a blogger, so is not protected by the states shield law.