Apple Lawsuit Challenges Legitimacy of Website Journalism. apple lawsuit challenges legitimacy of website journalism. Aren't journalists protected under First Amendment and other laws that allow them to protect their sources? The EFF says the court is also determining whether "online reporters are legitimate journalists," although it acknowledges that, for most of the hearing, the judge has assumed that they were journalists and examined whether the reporter's shield should apply in this case. At issue now is whether Apple has overcome this qualified privilege by demonstrating that its need for the information is greater than the need to protect the confidentiality of these journalists' sources. If the journalists must surrender their sources so that Apple can sue those who gave them their scoops on the Asteroid story, this raises serious concerns....

Apple Lawsuit Challenges Legitimacy of Website Journalism. apple lawsuit challenges legitimacy of website journalism. Not About Blogs Recently, some mainstream news publications have incorrectly reported that Apple is attempting to subpoena blog journalists. But even blogs should be afforded journalistic privilege protections, Opsahl says. It should be a functional test of who is a journalist," Opsahl says. There are a lot of different ways this can go, and of course we remain hopeful that the court will end up protecting these journalists," Opsahl says....

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The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism. the pointlessness of current videogame journalism. I wouldn't expect an overnight change from the current superficial to a superfluous model of videogame journalism, but a gradual expunging of the arrogant, child-minded and ultimately pointless style of writing and mindset would be more than welcome, and perhaps essential if the videogame press is to survive as videogamers grow up and mature past the age of 16. ...

Or did Summa fracture the laws of good journalism? I knew the lines between reporters and bloggers, between journalism and Internet rumours and speculation, and between amateur news sites and professional media outlets had been all but erased. I knew this was a brave new world of the Web and that the rules of journalism had changed; people can create their own content - music videos, comics, news reports - and they don't need corporate America's permission anymore. It's becoming exceedingly difficult to discern where the lines between blogging and amateur news gathering end and professional journalism begins. Joystiq is trying to ensure quality the same way a newspaper or magazine would, whereas Summa feels the site is just shoot-from-the-hip blogging where the rules of journalism don't apply....

How come that some computer journalists are testing yet unreleased hardware and how do they get it? The most important thing I've learned is that you'd almost kill for getting a hardware product for testing first, since this is like being the first to write a story in the normal journalism. Companies that give journalists the products can afford to ask you to please not publish any hard benchmark results before the release date and if you as a journalist want to take advantage of this kind of procedure another time, you should apply to this request. This has several benefits, for the manufacturer as well as for the journalist and public. The journalist can at least publish trends about the product before the release date and hence the public knows at least something about the product beforehand, which might be more reliable because the sample the journalist received is most likely a decent one....

In an email to somebody they call me 'irresponsible journalist', whew!!! It's certainly not true that Intel has never done anything like this, and the 'chipset game' is something all hardware journalists know about, who've ever had closer contact to Taiwanese motherboard makers. If this is what results from 'irresponsible journalism ' (original quote of an Abit spokesperson), then I won't mind being called an irresponsible journalist. V.N. Is there still anyone claiming that I am an 'irresponsible journalist' making up crazy theories?...