MacDailyNews Take: Can a blogger, or a journalist (which for quite some time, in America at least, is a blogger who pretends to be impartial) commit a robbery at gunpoint and then claim journalist shield laws protect him from handing over or having the gun seized by warrant or from even being charged with a crime? Are bloggers and/or “journalists” allowed to do whatever they want and then hide behind freedom of the press? If so, cool. ‘Are bloggers journalists? I guess we’ll find out,’ Mr. “The letter was shared on Monday afternoon by Nick Denton, the founder and president of Gawker Media. Darbyshire continued,” Stelter and Bilton report. The appropriate method of obtaining such materials would be the issuance of a subpoena,’ Ms. “‘It is abundantly clear under the law that a search warrant to remove these items was invalid.
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‘Jason is a journalist who works full time for our company,’ she continued, adding that he works from home, his ‘de facto newsroom.'” “‘Under both state and federal law, a search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist,’ she wrote in a letter to San Mateo County, Calif., authorities on Saturday. “Gawker’s chief operating officer, Gaby Darbyshire, said it expected the immediate return of the computers and servers,” Stelter and Bilton report. “One of Gawker’s blogs, Gizmodo, published articles last week about the future phone after purchasing the device for $5,000 from a person who found it at a bar in California last month.” “Gawker Media said on Monday that computers belonging to one of its editors, Jason Chen, were seized from his home on Friday as part of what appeared to be an investigation into the sale of a next-generation iPhone,” Brian Stelter and Nick Bilton report for The New York Times.
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