In the context of kos banning those who stubbornly post more than three or so paragraphs of copyrighted material, ...
I'm reading Howard Kurtz' latest donation of column space to those who would criticize us, today Jonathan Chait from The New Republic referring to us as "nastier" and "less principled" than our liberal forefathers. Kurtz inserts roughly 6 paragraphs of Chait's piece into his column.
It's my recent understanding that newspaper reporters are now legally indistinguishable from bloggers. In terms of commercial use, Kurtz is being paid more than the bloggers in here and WaPo is a larger commercial entity than the blogs here.
So, a simple question: What gives here?
I've thought the decision to be very strict here in terms of "fair use" was far beyond legal necessity, despite the claims it is only about lawsuit protection. But, I'm willing to be proven wrong.