The Libby Trial's Implications for the Media

Appearing in an online chat at the Washington Post to discuss The Libby Trial's Implications for the Media, Lucy Dalglish, the Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press wrote:

I happen to know that the access to the trial by media bloggers was negotiated during a two-year period by Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers Association. I think Cox just thought of it before anyone else, and he passionately worked to get his members accredited.

If this blogging experience works well, my guess is that we'll see more traditional media doing it in future trials. I think it has been very interesting to read the blogs.

 [ed. Cox has met with and spoken to federal judges and other staff in the judiciary over the past two years where he made a case for the credentialing bloggers by the courts but did not specifically discuss the Libby trial with the courts until Fall 2006]