Oregon ain't got love for no bloggers

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/bloggers_might_be_excluded_fro.html

"Lake Oswego is considering defining media organizations as 'institutionalized,' 'well-established' and producing at least 25 percent news content," explained Sieon Roux in her Oregonian article. The independent blogging world has become so ingrained in the journalism industry that this potential sanction would be like providing limitations for independent filmmakers trying to distribute their films to a developed movie theater company like Loews. There is a concept in economics known as Barriers to Entry, whereas newcomers to an industry are presented with obstacles that they must overcome in order to get in the game. In the case of Lake Oswego, their barrier of entry is you have to be a developed journalist in order to be granted entry into an executive session meeting. However, the only solution to breaking this 'barrier' would be for a blogger to succumb to the demands of the Lake Oswego government and join a developed newspaper like The Oregonian. That, in my estimation, is completely unreasonable because although, not every blogger should be permitted access to these meetings, there shouldn't be a law in play, that prevents any of them from attending. I guess the worry of allowing a blogger to attend a session is while, the media cannot "directly report on discussions," the government might fear that bloggers would be less likely to respect this rule. Nonetheless, any government shouldn't have this much influence over the media because it hinders a journalist's potential for creative thought.