Survey Shows Some Consumers Wary of Bloggers' Rights?

This is an odd claim coming from tech world news -- I'd even go as far as to call it obvious spin. The lead sentence reads:

A significant minority of respondents to a survey conducted by Hostway.com, a national provider of managed Internet services, say that bloggers should not benefit from the same First Amendment protections that are afforded conventional journalists.

Why was the story framed as "a significant minority is against 1st amendment rights for bloggers"? The results of the survey showed that 51.7% of respondants believed that bloggers should have the same right to free speech as journalists, and 27.3% neither agreed nor disagreed. Only 21 percent believed that bloggers should not receive the same protection. So why is the position that is outweighed by more than 2 to 1 cited as "a significant minority". To put it another way, the day after Bush was elected, what if the NYTimes headline read: "A Significant Number of Americans Voted Against Bush". Would you call that partisan spin? If so, why isn't this clearly anti-blog spin? Then again, anti-blog opinions are likely to becoming increasingly vogue.

You just watch: over the next few months it will be the new trend in the media to pull out some old well dressed credible-looking dinosaurs to say: "Bloggers aren't journalists... blogging is typing... I've been in the Mass Media for 50 years, so I know what's going on with this new unpredictable technology... wah wah, wah wah..."