if the people present are identifiable.
There was a case in Seattle a few years ago (it settled recently), in
which a freelance journalist reported and exposed his apartment
building management's discriminatory practices. As a result, he was
shunned and threatened with losing his apartment. The case went to the
courts, where the judge decided that, because he didn't have a
contract with an editor, he wasn't acting as a journalist. It was an
absurd decision, obviously catering to the people with money
(preserving the status quo, etc.), and probably also partially based
on the fact that the journalist in question is kind of an annoying
git, on a personal level. But nonetheless, that was the decision. The
journalist appealed-- the last I heard, he won on his appeal, but it
took 10 years and a complete shift in the idea of "journalism" in
order to get there.
--Stephanie
On 4/28/06, Casey McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great article... Unfortunately, that probably means that we should all
> start having people fill out forms to verify their consent of being on
> our videoblogs (for those of us who make non-personal vlogs, under the
> judge's definition of journalism). Great... MORE work!
--
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