Apple goes to the source

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http://news.com.com/Apple+goes+to+the+source/2010-1071_3-5601664.html?part=rss&tag=5600533&subj=news

***About the Apple lawsuit against bloggers to require the bloggers to divulge confidential sources. Court ruled against bloggers.
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Apple Computer's attempts to strong-arm Web publishers into divulging their confidential sources illustrates how bloggers, Internet journalists and other online scribes remain second-rate citizens.
No significant difference exists between the news-gathering techniques used by traditional reporters and the publishers of Apple news sites Think Secret, Apple Insider, and PowerPage. But there is a tremendous legal chasm dividing them: The California law protecting confidential sources shields only broadcast media and "periodical publications"--not the Web.

Apple claims that the Web writers are not "legitimate members of the press" when revealing details about forthcoming products. Those actions, though, describe exactly what good journalists do--writing articles that serve their readers, rather than the parochial interests of a single corporation.
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[Kire]

1. don't you mean the core?

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