Why are so many porn industry professionals targeting bloggers? Too Much Media takes Shelle Hale to court

Monica Foster commentary: It's amazing how porn industry professionals try so hard to convince the public that they're all for "freedom of speech" - yet are trying to silence independent bloggers left and right. What a bunch of complete hypocrites.

courtesy Crystal L. Cox on MarcRandazza.com

Shellee Hale - Blogger 

"Shellee Hale, claimed security flaws in a company in the online porn industry, is being sued by a Freehold firm for slander. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case today."


"Depending how far the ruling goes, the case involving Washington State resident Shellee Hale could more clearly define whether bloggers receive the same type of protections as "traditional’’ journalists in New Jersey.

Hale, a former Microsoft employee and a private investigator, argues she was preparing an article for her website, Pornafia, on the infiltration of pornography on the Internet when she posted her comments about Too Much Media Inc. in 2008.

In comments she posted to a message board about a security breach by TMM, Hale claimed its owners had threatened her. TMM, which helps online adult entertainment companies track sales, sued for defamation and Hale sought protection of New Jersey so-called shield law from revealing her sources. TMM argued Hale is not a journalist and fabricated the purpose of her website to seek the protection."

Source of Quote and Full Article
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/nj_supreme_court_to_rule_wheth.html

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/blogger_in_online_porn_company.html

Shellee Hale Lost this Case as many of us know by now, but WHY?

See Bloggers Can Be Journalists,
Just Not Crystal L. Cox or Shellee Hale, Why?

Well, you see, it is because we do a better job at telling the Real News than the archaic Big Media like Forbes, New York Times, the Oregonian, Lee Enterprises and More. And we are truly independent.

Bloggers are the Real News, and Investigative Bloggers Crystal Cox and Shellee Hale proved that.

Oh and remember the Big Talking of Washington State Attorney, Bruce E. H. Johnson about how if the case was in Washington, the Shield Law would apply.  Thing is Shellee Hale was a Washington State Resident, and the company was in New Jersey, so that is where they served up her justice.
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/12/unlike_oregon_bloggers_are_jou.php

Yet Judges in both cases say that we are not journalists because we are not associated with Big Media. And Judge Marco Hernandez, after accusing blogger Crystal Cox of a crime she did not commit in an Motion to Deny a New Trial in a "Civil Case", well Judge Marco Hernandez claimed that bloggers can be journalists, just not this blogger? Really?  

What about Shellee Hale? I guess it is just any blogger who threatens their Good Ol' Boys and Gals Network of using "Media" to supress information, control the masses, turn victims into criminals, and use the "News" to sell products and information in a way that keeps bringing in Big Money, for BIG Media and the Political, Corporate driving force behind their agenda.

continue reading this article by Crystal L. Cox on MarcRandazza.com