"Tension Over Sports Blogging"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21bloggers.html?hp

In light of the "new media/old media" divide, and the proliferation of access points to information, where should the line be drawn between "owenership" of news (i.e. which tv stations, bloggers, youtube posters, etc have the right to report on a story first) and the responsibility of the media as a general entity to simply deliver information to the public? or the First Amendment/freedom of press?

While this article is specifically about ownership of sports coverage and the relationship between journalists and professional sports leagues, it also mentions tensions in other realms of the news media (i.e. last week ABC limiting other stations' use of video clips from the presidential debate to just 30 seconds)

As the playing field is leveled and more and more individuals enter the mix, tensions seem inevitible. But who then becomes the objective arbiter in the situation? The Supreme Court, as a hockey executive suggested in the article?