December 12, 2004

A Matter of Degree

Beth has a link to an article by CBS.

They sound a bit threatened by bloggers discussing politics. Best quotations:

"But where journalists' careers may be broken on ethics violations, bloggers are writing in the Wild West of cyberspace."

“'People are pretty smart in assuming that if a blog is making a case on one side that it’s partisan,' Jamieson said. 'The problem is when a blog pretends to hold neutrality but is actually partisan.'”

Do as I say and not as I do?

As far as I know, no one has threatened to jail U.S. bloggers for exercising their right to free speech (unlike here) but once you begin placing restrictions on what can be discussed in a blog, aren't the consequences just a matter of degree?

Posted by marybeth at December 12, 2004 07:58 PM Blogging
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