As cases continue cropping up raising the question of whether bloggers’ deserve the protection of the “reporter’s privilege” and other rights traditionally reserved for professional journalists, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg has a very enlightened take on the question of who is a journalist in this new world order:
Those who advocate a special legal privilege for journalists must accept that anyone who thinks he’s a journalist is a journalist, and figure out how to protect the activity rather than a defined group of people. Properly understood, journalism has never been simply a trade or a profession. In a democracy like ours, it’s a basic right.
