While I've been reading We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age, I've had to take breaks to ponder some things before I write a book review. This post really isn't about the book, instead it is about what I've been considering. Honestly, I haven't thought that much about it. I typically write what I see or think, I sometimes write about other people but most of the time decide not to as to be credible I would want to quote. People, despite what social networking folk seem to think, enjoy their privacy.

I've mistakenly thought that the 'Freedom of the Press', as noted in the United States, was consistent - the book demonstrates that this is not the case and even lead me to ponder why it is that 'the press' has more rights than the average person on the planet. For example, why is it that sometimes a journalist can get away with not divulging sources but the average person is more likely to be held in contempt of a Court for the same. It makes little sense to me, and while the author of the book took me down his own (thorough) chain of thought, I'm still wondering why it is that the media was even given rights - poorly defined rights - in the Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. { Read more }