While many made fun of Tatel for the line, it’s very serious in what he was talking about in terms of privilege. Many want to draw a distinction between what blogs and what the larger press does, but the problem is most eloquently pointed out in Tatel’s decision–namely that the right of a free press is a ‘broadly granted personal right’.
Are we then to create a privilege
that protects only those reporters employed by Time Magazine,
the New York Times, and other media giants, or do we extend
that protection as well to the owner of a desktop printer
producing a weekly newsletter to inform his neighbors, lodge
brothers, co-religionists, or co-conspirators? Perhaps more to
the point today, does the privilege also protect the proprietor of
a web log: the stereotypical ?blogger? sitting in his pajamas at
his personal computer posting on the World Wide Web his best
product to inform whoever happens to browse his way? If not,
why not? How could one draw a distinction consistent with the
court?s vision of a broadly granted personal right? If so, then
would it not be possible for a government official wishing to
engage in the sort of unlawful leaking under investigation in the
present controversy to call a trusted friend or a political ally,
advise him to set up a web log (which I understand takes about
three minutes) and then leak to him under a promise of
confidentiality the information which the law forbids the official
to disclose?
The problem with differentiating between forms of media is that the privileges many reporters are advocating aren’t privileges, but rights–and the confusing of privileges and rights only weakens those that everyone has as a personal guarantee in our social contract.
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