On leave granted, defendant appeals, arguing that both the statutory newsperson’s privilege and First Amendment of the United States Constitution protect the anonymity of her sources, and that the motion judge erred in finding she was not a member of the news media and her information was not “newsworthy.”
live in jersey and blog? as of yesterday, legally, you are not a journalist.
There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote ‘pro blogging’ industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.
oh WordPress, why do you have to make simple things so complicated?
a big reason i’m using tumblr. i love WP and think it’s fantastic. i still use it for other things but there is a lot to be said for usability barriers. between themes breaking my install and various drafts of half-baked posts piling up, i needed something that let me create instead of forcing me to manage.
