The law of Bait Car journalism

Published April 28, 2011 4:00am ET



David Broder, Edward R. Murrow, William F. Buckley Jr., Walter Cronkite, and now… Bait Car? Yup. 

As the old Sesame Street song said, it would appear that one of these things just doesn’t belong here.  Well, that’s not what the producers of the television show, Bait Car, say.  They argue their show is real journalism, and—in an attempt to avoid producing evidence in a California court proceeding—they say their photographers are journalists.  In recognition of this creative legal argument, their case gets to be our Case of the Week.

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