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Jed at FreedomSight discusses the issue of bloggers protecting confidential sources.

Lauren Gelman is asking for instances where bloggers have broken stories. One that immediately comes to mind is JPFO's exposing how BATFU almost destroyed a man's life through incompetence--in other words, performing a watchdog role in the protection of individuals from abuse by government. If that isn't the role of the press, I don't know what is. Now tell me you would have seen that in the NY Times.

I'm glad to see others raising the flag on this. See "Bloggers: Have You Applied for Your Reporting License?" and "Judge Creates Special Class of Journalist--Just Because He Says So".

I suppose if judges can tell us who a journalist is, it's not a far stretch to imagine they can dictate what qualifies as news.

But I believe our friend Mr. Garrison might have something to say to them about that.

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