Dec 22 2007
Simmon on the iBrattleboro suit
Bill Simmon over at Candleblog has chimed in on the recent Seven Days piece that featured a few comments from yours truly. He doesn’t agree with the overall tone of the piece, namely its implication that the reason the editorials in the papers came out supportive of the suit is stemmed in “new media/old media” jealousy. Rather:
The real tension, I think, is between bloggers, who get the internet, and newspaper editors, who generally don’t. Every opinion I’ve seen expressed that supports iBrattleboro being named in the libel suit seems to miss the fundamental differences between blog comments and letters to the editor in newspapers. Perhaps more importantly, they miss the fact that this is very covered ground. Blogging is still fairly new to Vermont but online unmoderated forums are not that new to the legal system. That the relevant case law that’s being debated is eleven years old is telling.
I’m inclined to agree with him on that.
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