Web news is news if it is news…no legal way to distinguish or rate published information that acts like news…NMU (05/30/2006): Court applies reporter’s privilege to Web site operator: “‘The shield law is intended to protect the gathering and dissemination of news,’ Presiding Justice Conrad L. Rushing wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel for the California Court of Appeal in San Jose. ‘We can think of no workable test or principle that would distinguish ‘legitimate’ from ‘illegitimate’ news.’”