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Minister for EU Membership Ergemen Bagis dismissed EU criticism saying most of those jailed are imprisoned for non-journalist activities.
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If anyone is an intellectual lightweight, it is all of the non-journalist and pund-nuts on cnn and msnbc.
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Minister for EU Membership Ergemen Bagis dismissed EU criticism saying most of those jailed are imprisoned for non-journalist activities.
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All of the joke non-journalist didn't even have the gonads to ask him about that and about the fact it will pay for any and all abortions.
Obama says opponents reducing health care reform to 'politics' 2009
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Nonetheless, Grant does not foreclose the possibility that courts will apply a different diligence standard to non-journalist bloggers and users of other online media as the “norms of new communications media” evolve.
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As a result,the Defence will likely not apply to non-journalist bloggers and users of other online media unless they perform the due diligence expected of a journalist in the circumstances.
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Or, managers might consider a series of brown-bag staff lunches where non-journalist representatives of different racial and ethnic groups in the community -- African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, Christians -- talk about how they are portrayed in The Post.
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In summary, although the Defence extends to non-journalist bloggers and users of other online media, many members of these groups are unlikely to be protected by the Defence because it requires that they performed the due diligence expected of a journalist.
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Even if a non-journalist blogger or user of other online media does engage in the level of diligence required to meet the journalistic standard, they may unknowingly fail to do so in a way that produces a strong record of evidence from which a court can conclude that they did act diligently.
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Importantly, the Defence applies not only to journalists and print-based publishers – the types of defendants in Grant and Quan – but also to non-journalist bloggers and users of other online media:
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