Blogging talk:Blogger's Code of Conduct/Keep our sources private

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8. We reserve the right to keep our sources private and will only divulge such information upon order of the court.

9. We are bloggers and not journalists, but we do deserve fair and equal access to Press materials.

10. We are matured enough to understand and follow the Blogger's Code of Conduct.

• mainly brainstorming.. Laibeus Lord

I'd suggest reversing the order of the first two, and changing the wording to "Not all bloggers are journalists"; some bloggers most certainly ARE journalists. (PJ at Groklaw would seem the canonical example, but doubtless any number of the DC Post's journalists with blogs fall in both sets.) 128.143.34.206 14:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I've made a new module for Keep our sources private Angela ^talk 23:59, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Hmm... maybe we should separate the comments for my #9 and #10 suggestions.

quoting ""Not all bloggers are journalists"" - good point. We should build on that as the basis. The basic idea behind it is something like "Not all bloggers are journalists - with that, not all bloggers are bound by the 'Ethics of Journalism' and/or are not familiar with the practices of journalists". Laibeus Lord 12:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

11.Just some thoughts.........

We reserve the right to keep our sources private and will only divulge such information upon order of the court.

In addition, we are also committed that our right to keep sources private shall not be used to obfuscate sources with them intent to claim credit for the work.

--GSephyr 08:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)