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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25329)	3/10/2005 3:41:41 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) of 116555

Are Bloggers Journalists? biz.yahoo.com By Jessi Hempel BusinessWeek Online A California judge issued a preliminary ruling on Mar. 3 that three bloggers who published leaked information about an unreleased Apple (NasdaqNM:AAPL - News) product must divulge their confidential sources. If the ruling holds, it will set a precedent certain to reverberate through the blogosphere because this means under the law bloggers aren't considered journalists. To crack down on internal leaks, Apple has taken legal action against three Web logs: PowerPage, Apple Insider, and ThinkSecret. The sites published information about an unreleased product, code-named Asteroid, that Apple considered a trade secret. According to court papers, the company says the people who run these sites aren't "legitimate members of the press," and therefore it has the right to subpoena information that will reveal which Apple employees are violating their confidentiality agreements. In most cases, journalists are protected under the First Amendment and don't have to reveal their sources.

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