In a surprising turn of events eight US newspapers and Associated Press Agency filed a court brief which says they should be allowed to protect their sources.在一个令人惊讶的事件八，美国的报纸和相关的新闻社提交了一份简短的法院说应让他们来保护他们的合法来源。

In March, Apple won the right to see the bloggers’ e-mail records to find out who leaked information on upcoming products to them, which they published.今年3月，苹果韩元的权利，看到博客电子邮件记录，以找出谁泄露的资料，对即将到来的产品给他们，因为他们出版。

“For us, this case is about whether the First Amendment protects journalists from being turned into informants for the government, the courts or anybody else who wants to use them that way,” Mr Tomlin said. “对我们来说，这宗案件是关于是否第一修正案的保护记者从正在成为告密者，为政府，法院或其他人谁是要利用他们的方式， ”议员汤姆林说。

Yay! yay ！ So we are journalists.所以，我们是记者。 That sounds pleasing.听起来很令人高兴的。

It is very good that they have decided to protect the bloggers.这是非常好的，他们已决定，以保护博客。 Any precedent set against the bloggers in court could equally well be used against traditional news agencies in future.任何先例对博客在法庭上同样可以被用来对付传统的新闻机构在未来的。 It also in some little way vindicates the equivalence of bloggers with traditional news agencies.它还在一些小的方式证明了等价的博客与传统的新闻机构。

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