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CSPAN and state leg take different views on bloggers

By emmettoconnell
Sat Mar 10, 2007 at 06:31:20 AM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Alternative and Community Media

CSPAN finally raises the white flag in the Carl Malamud revolution (link to CSPAN):

C-SPAN is introducing a liberalized copyright policy for current, future, and past coverage of any official events sponsored by Congress and any federal agency-- about half of all programming offered on the C-SPAN television networks--which will allow non-commercial copying, sharing, and posting of C-SPAN video on the Internet, with attribution.

They're also wisely building out their own product, capitolhearings.org, which will be where I guess we can get video from hearings, such as John McKay's testimony earlier this week.

Also, the state senate followed the state house and passed a shield law that deliberately left out bloggers:

The state Senate overwhelmingly passed a measure Thursday that would keep journalists who refused to reveal confidential sources out of jail.

The measure passed on a 41-7 bipartisan vote, with one lawmaker excused. The House unanimously passed a similar measure last month, and leaders will decide which bill will move forward to Gov. Chris Gregoire.

...

The bill defines a member of the media as anyone who is in the regular business of news gathering for publishing or broadcasting.

Generally, authors of occasional opinion pieces or Internet bloggers would not be covered.

I wonder about local folks like mcjoan at DailyKos, Goldy at Horses Ass and Randy Stapilus at Ridenbaugh Press. All of them are are bloggers, but who also seem to be pretty near the "regular business" of news gathering. Even if they weren't, I could see the logic of extending a shield law to them, since they do break news.

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