"The funders and owners of the Progressive Movement get richer and richer off Wall Street and the corporate system." ~ Citizen Journalism, Investigative Bloggers are News by the People for the People and DESERVE equal protection under the law and under the constitution.

"The self-labeled Progressive Movement that has arisen over the past decade is primarily one big propaganda campaign serving the political interests of the the Democratic Party’s richest one-percent who created it. The funders and owners of the Progressive Movement get richer and richer off Wall Street and the corporate system. But they happen to be Democrats, cultural and social liberals who can’t stomach Republican policies, and so after bruising electoral defeats a decade ago they decided to buy a movement, one just like the Republicans, a copy.

The Progressive Movement that exists today is their success story. The Democratic elite created a mirror image of the type of astroturf front groups and think tanks long ago invented, funded and promoted by the Reaganites and the Koch brothers. The liberal elite own the Progressive Movement. Organizing for Action, the “non-partisan” slush fund to train the new leaders of the Progressive Movement is just the latest big money ploy to consolidate their control and keep the feed flowing into the trough.

The professional Progressive Movement that we see reflected in the pages of The Nation magazine, in the online marketing and campaigning of MoveOn and in the speeches of Van Jones, is primarily a political public relations creation of America’s richest corporate elite, the so-called 1%, who happen to bleed Blue because they have some degree of social and environmental consciousness, and don’t bleed Red. But they are just as committed as the right to the overall corporate status quo, the maintenance of the American Empire, and the monopoly of the rich over the political process that serves their economic interests."

Source of Taylor Marsh Article
http://www.taylormarsh.com/blog/2013/03/john-staubers-stab-at-progressive-movement/

"Are bloggers journalists?" the First Amendment APPLIES to All. Citizen Journalists, Investigative Bloggers SHOULD have Equal Rights in the Courts as Traditional Journalists, Traditional Reporters. Equal Rights for Bloggers and Traditional Journalist is ESSENTIAL to Free Speech in New Media, Modern Media, Online Media.

Oregon Retraction Laws - "retraction laws bloggers" Retraction Laws should CERTAINLY Apply to Bloggers, Online MEDIA is the Number One Media Source Today. Archaic Retraction Laws or Shall I Say Archaic Judicial Interpretation, NEEDS to Change

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More on Retraction Laws


Oregon Judicial Opinion that Retraction Laws Do Not APPLY TO Bloggers
http://www.rcfp.org/sites/default/files/docs/20111208_164702_cox_opinion.pdf

http://obsidianfinancesucks.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-am-i-not-allowed-to-use-oregon.html

http://duanebosworth.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-separates-blogger-from-journalist.html

http://obsidianfinancesucks.blogspot.com/2012/01/judge-hernandez-was-not-fair-to-me.html

http://obsidianfinancesucks.blogspot.com/2012/10/so-in-state-of-oregon-retraction-laws.html

For more on the Topic of the First Amendment and
Investigative Bloggers as it relates to the Crystal Cox Case,
Now on Appeal at the Ninth Circuit

http://www.crystalcox.com/2013/03/does-portland-oregon-judge-have-legal.html

For more on the Very Important issues of the Crystal Cox Case, and ENDING the Monopoly Big Media has on Free Speech Once and For All, Check Out

CrystalCoxCase.com

Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox WANTS equal protection for Investigative Bloggers and Traditional Journalists under the Law. Blogger Crystal Cox WANTS equal protection under the Constitution for ALL Citizens.

"Crystal Cox considers herself an investigative journalist, but her only outlets are the websites she's created to write about legal issues. In one of many blog posts she wrote about Obsidian Finance Group (an Oregon firm), she was critical of the company and called its co-founder a "thug" and a "liar." When Obsidian sued her, she said she had an inside source that backed her allegations. She tried to use Oregon's shield law — which protects journalists from revealing their sources — to protect her, but the judge found that Cox was indeed not a journalist and, as such, could not be protected by the shield law.

Cox, who represented herself, also argued that Obsidian's claim was unfounded because they never asked her for a retraction. Under Oregon's retraction law, a defamation case cannot go forward unless the person who claims to have been defamed has first asked for a retraction or correction and not received it, but that law only applies to printed or broadcast material.

A federal judge ruled (pdf) against Cox's legal arguments. The ruling requires her to pay The jury in the case required her to pay $2.5 million in damages. The case has made international news and has reinvigorated the question of whether bloggers are journalists. Should bloggers be protected by the same laws that protect traditional journalists?

In a world where more and more news is found online, how can those lines be drawn? What punishment, if any, should Cox — and bloggers like her — face for defaming someone? Should traditional journalistic standards apply to everyone who writes a story online?"

Source of Post

http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/blogger-journalist/

Listen to the Audio for more Debate on the Topic.

Also please Note, I never had a Secret Source. The Seattle Weekly ran with that in December of 2011, and its' not factual. My sources were revealed for years when I went to trial. Plus I took over 500 pages of proof of source.

And to this day, I believe Kevin Padrick broke bankruptcy law and was in breach of contract with the Summit Principals and that this severely harmed the Creditors and Investors of the Summit Bankruptcy. Kevin Padrick has been accused of these same activities in objections to his fees in other bankruptcy cases as well, do your homework if you really want to know. 

Kevin Padrick's actions harmed his OWN reputation, however he still signed massive wattage agreements and got multi-million dollar deals, and continues to. I did not harm his reputation, his own actions did. FIND THE FACTS. .. Read the Documents, Listen to hearing Audios, Read Depositions, Watch Videos, Read Billing Receipts, Read Court Orders, Read Contracts,  Read internal eMails, and make an educated decision on the facts. If you don't want to do this, then is it really "impartial", "fair" to simply assume I am the bad guy, because a Jury was instructed to not apply any laws to me nor the first amendment?