Federal judge decides who is an ‘authorized journalist’—and who is not
m.examiner.com | Dec 9th 2011 1:00 PM“Montana blogger is not journalist,” Jeff Barnard of the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernández ruled that “investigative blogger” Crystal L. Cox “was not a journalist and cannot claim the protections afforded to mainstream reporters and news outlets.”
Per Alex Dobuzinskis of Reuters :
Hernandez found Cox failed to present evidence that she had any media credentials or affiliation with a “recognized news entity,” or that she had checked her facts or tried to contact the other side to “get both sides of the story.”
“Most newspapers and media companies do not subject reader comments posted online to the same journalistic standards they apply to their own reporters,” he writes.
In terms of “journalistic standards,” one need only look at the “Authorized Journalist” archives compiled at Full Story >>
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