Blogging Legal
Before the break we introduced you to Ellen Simonetti, also known in the blogosphere as the "Queen of the Sky". She was fired after her employer, Delta Airlines, objected to the content of her blog. In response Ms. Simonetti designed a Bloggers Bill of Rights, as part of her effort to win her job back.
Our next guest doesn't have high hopes that the "Queen of the Sky" will get her wings back any time soon. Kurt Opsahl follows legal issues for the Electronic Foundation Frontier, a group that works to defend the right to free speech on-line. He was in San Francisco.
This is an interesting discussion - of particular note is the fact that one cannot use opinions as evidence for defaming (at least in the US). This is
contrary to what Polevoy tries to threaten us with....
Have listen...
Chris
Blogging and Credibility
There are web-blogs for everything from flight attendants, to book lovers, to train-spotters. There are also blogs for political and news junkies. In fact, millions of people around the world log on to blogs to read the latest news.
But how credible is what they're reading? Not everyone is sure you can trust what you read on a blog, or the motives of the person writing it. Last week, it emerged that two bloggers who supported US presidential-hopeful Howard Dean had been paid by Dean's campaign.
Later this week, a group of academics is meeting at Harvard to look at the credibility of bloggers. To discuss this further, we reached Alexis Rice. She's a fellow at the Center for the Study of American Government at Johns Hopkins University.
Listen to The Current: Part 3
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