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Blogger broke a cardinal rule of journalism by revealing source to FBI
- WheelsAtLarge 8y agoAnyone that thinks they are protected by a blogger's silence should think twice about it. Bloggers are not journalists. The source that got shafted and all future sources need to know that bloggers will not necessarily follow the same rules as a journalist. At a very primal level, bloggers don't have the financial and legal resources that most professional journalists have. Leaving them open to financial and personal ruin and still having to go to jail if they don't reveal their source. Why would a blogger take the consequences of not revealing their sources? In essence, bloggers will break very easily.