{"id":1432,"date":"2007-06-17T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/17\/william-safire-on-blogs-and-journalism\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T16:16:11","slug":"william-safire-on-blogs-and-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/17\/william-safire-on-blogs-and-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"William Safire on blogs and journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Whether you&#8217;re a blogger or whether you&#8217;re The New York Times or CBS or The Wall Street Journal, if what you are doing is aimed at informing the public, then you&#8217;re a journalist, whether you get paid for it or not.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Safire is quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Bush+administration+attacks+shield+for+bloggers\/2100-1028_3-6191053.html?tag=sas.email\">this CNet story<\/a> about a proposal in the U.S. to create a federal &#8220;journalist shield&#8221; law that would protect reporters &#8212; and possibly bloggers as well &#8212; from being forced to reveal their sources and\/or testify in court. There are state laws that protect journalists, but not federal ones, which is why Josh Wolf <a href=\"http:\/\/mathewingram.com\/media\/2007\/04\/14\/josh-wolf-journalist-or-troublemaker\/\">wound up in court<\/a> for refusing to testify and turn over his videotape of an anarchist demonstration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whether you&#8217;re a blogger or whether you&#8217;re The New York Times or CBS or The Wall Street Journal, if what you are doing is aimed at informing the public, then you&#8217;re a journalist, whether you get paid for it or not.&#8221; Safire is quoted in this CNet story about a proposal in the U.S. to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/17\/william-safire-on-blogs-and-journalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;William Safire on blogs and journalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}