The News Review:
- Wash. regulators ask: Can blogging be lobbying?
- Game Blogging: Westlake at No. 3. Oxnard
- Malaysia: Blogging Code of Ethics?
- Lindsay Lohan refuses to quit blogging
- Live-Blogging the Bailout Hearing
Wash. regulators ask: Can blogging be lobbying?
Seattle Post Intelligencer
– Blogger beware? State regulators are wondering whether online political activism amounts to lobbying, which could force Web-based activists to file public reports detailing their finances. In a collision of 21st century media and 1970s political reforms, the inquiry hints at a showdown over press freedoms for bloggers, whose self-published journals can shift between news reporting, opinion writing, political organizing and campaign fundraising. State officials are downplaying any possible media rights conflict, pointing out that regulators have already exempted journalistic blogging from previous guidelines for online campaign activity. But the blogosphere is taking the notion seriously. One prominent liberal blogger in Seattle is already issuing a dare – if the government wants David Goldstein to file papers as a lobbyist, it will have to take him to court. Goldstein, publisher of the widely read horsesass. org, wants to know how his political crusades could be subject to financial disclosures while newspaper writers, radio hosts and others in traditional media get a pass.
Game Blogging: Westlake at No. 3. Oxnard
Los Angeles Times, CA
OxnardHis team stands 10-0 for only the second time in school history. It’s captured its fifth league championship in the last eight years. It has won 18 consecutive regular season games. Is Oxnard focused? Coach Mike Beckham thinks so. Has it been hard preventing the Yellow Jackets from becoming complacent? Beckham says not at all.
Malaysia: Blogging Code of Ethics?
Global Voices Online, MA
globalvoicesonline. themalaysianinsider.
Lindsay Lohan refuses to quit blogging
Times of India, India
The actress has made
use of her MySpace. com blog as a political and personal platform, alluding to
her relationship with girlfriend Samantha Ronson and slamming U. politics in
recent months.
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Live-Blogging the Bailout Hearing
New York Times, United States
A second (and shorter) panel discussion followed; it included testimony from members of the banking and insurance industries. A live blog of the proceedings follows, with the most recent dispatches first. | Class dismissed, again: After a second panel discussion not nearly as combative as the first, Representative Frank officially ends the bailout hearing.