Well, yes, I do have fun (UPDATED)
Ron ColemanI hate @RonColeman because he has more fun practicing law than I get to have. http://t.co/PRr7hJMbwA Hate. Hate. Hate. — The Original SPQR (@SPQRzilla) October 27, 2014 Yes, it looks…
Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege
The New York State Bar Association’s Bright Ideas journal (Vol. 22, No. 2) 17 (Fall 2013) has just published my essay about shield laws entitled, Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege.…
The big crunch
It’s another big moment in blogger “transparency” upon us now. The general rule is that the person who hasn’t “disclosed” enough to meet some preposterous concept of transparency is the…
Copywrong
David Post discusses Judge Richard Posner’s musings on the pretty hopeless prospects of the newspaper biz: f “the newspaper” as a business model fails (because of competition from the free…
And worth every penny!
Free (and apolitical) IP advice for bloggers over at Right Wing News.
We’re All Journalists Now
Ron ColemanThat’s what all we journalists have been saying. Scott Gant now lays it out in a new book by the same name.
C-SPANking
Ron ColemanCSPAN gets a privileged perch in the pusillanimous proceedings of our parliament, pointing its probing photographic proboscides and pimping for pay. And it piggishly refuses to share, even though it’s…
Mainstream mugging
Debbie Schlussel is upset, and quite rightfully, it would seem, about Sean Hannity — very much MSM, even if the medium is Fox — lifting her journalistic work on Husham…
Doing journalism
Internet bloggers will be allowed to cover the criminal trial of former White House staffer Lewis “Scooter” Libby alongside reporters from traditional media outlets, a court spokesman said on Thursday.The…
That Floyd Abrams magic, or truly scrumptuous
The arrogant New York Times loses again. The Supreme Court agrees with the Second Circuit: If there were a reporters’ privilege under the First Amendment, it still wouldn’t give you…
Trust us, we’re the press (again)
Mickey Kaus: On “Good Morning America,” ABC News’ Jessica Yellin reported, “It is just terrible timing for the White House. Just as there are signs that the President’s poll numbers…
Reuters: Never mind.
I am sure it was accurate, in some Ratherian sense … but it was fake, and the blogsphere did brilliantly what it does best: Caught it and called the fakers…
Floyd Abrams loses another one: No privilege for reporters’ phone records
We’ve never been big fans of the “press shield,” and I say that because I like the First Amendment. I just wish Floyd Abrams would keep his hands off it.…
Is the Internet replacing “journalism”?
Nicholas Lemann writes in The New Yorker: Reporting — meaning the tradition by which a member of a distinct occupational category gets to cross the usual bounds of geography and…