Alice Is on Trial for Sale of Cocaine

Alice is on trial for sale of cocaine. She was arrested because she sold cocaine to Bill during an undercover drug investigation. Bill had previously been arrested for drug possession and had agreed to participate in the "sting" order to get the charges against him dropped. Officer Cowan, who arrested Alice, obtained a warrant to search her home for cocaine. The official inventory shows that 6 kilograms of cocaine were discovered in Alice's refrigerator. An Internet blogger who uses the name Honest John has posted several blogs claiming that Officer Cowan is notorious for lying about what he finds when executing search warrants. Alice has determined that Honest John's real name is John Evans. She has subpoenaed John to testify and ask him where he got the information about Officer Cowan.

A) John has a First Amendment right as a member of the media to refuse to appear in court.
B) John must obey the subpoena but he can invoke the First Amendment as grounds for refusing to answer questions.
C) John can invoke a federal media privilege because he published the story on the Internet.
D) John can invoke the state's statutory media privilege only if it extends to bloggers as well as reporters in traditional media outlets.