VITAMEDIAS
Six Degrees of Separation: Today's New York Times had a story on the case of Norton v. Glenn regarding the issue of "reportage privilege." [...]
The case has obvious ramifications for weblog authors. After all, a significant portion of weblog reportage consists of brief mentions of stories that appear in more traditional publications or even references to weblog references to weblog references (and so on) to articles that appear in more traditional publications. If there is no "neutral reportage privilege," the chain of potential defendants could be as long as the number of links to a particular story.