Who said reporters are professional Fascist Feinstein? Journalists/ reporters may have credentials to go into press briefings and other delegated settings for the elite media but who said what they do is delivering news let alone the truth?
I’m sorry where in the First Amendment does it say one has to be licensed to express their views and/ or report on a subject? Is that section of the First Amendment hidden along with the Good and Plenty clause?
Matt Drudge has it right this woman thing is an outright FASCIST! How dare she try to now define who can and cannot report on news and events?!
Maybe, FRANKENFEINSTEIN YOU FASCIST, if the media DID THEIR GOD DAMN JOBS bloggers and others like myself you deem “aren’t really reporters” wouldn’t have to do what we do! For the record I’ve never titled myself as a journalist or reporter. I am an American who has had it with all of you and what you are doing to this nation. I have an opinion and views which are felt and shared by many Americans. It is my GOD GIVEN NATURAL RIGHT to write about anything I see and hear. You and the rest of the FASCIST PROGRESSIVES in DC WILL NOT have a final say in what we do.
My God America if now wasn’t a time to initiate recall elections across the country I don’t know what will! What the hell is wrong with the people in this country!
WAKE THE HELL UP!
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Bill to protect journalists clears Senate panel
By David G. Savage | LA Times
WASHINGTON — Journalists and bloggers who report news to the public will be protected from being forced to testify about their work under a media shield bill passed by a Senate committee Thursday.
But the new legal protections will not extend to the controversial online website Wikileaks and others whose principal work involves disclosing “primary-source documents … without authorization.”
Senate sponsors of the bill and a coalition of media groups that support it hailed Thursday’s bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee vote as a breakthrough.
“We’re closer than we’ve ever been before to passing a strong and tough media shield bill,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “Thanks to important bipartisan compromises, we’ve put together a strong bill that balances the need for national security with that of a free press.”
The final hurdle for the Judiciary Committee was defining who is a journalist in the digital era.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) insisted on limiting the legal protection to “real reporters” and not, she said, a 17-year-old with his own website.
“I can’t support it if everyone who has a blog has a special privilege … or if Edward Snowden were to sit down and write this stuff, he would have a privilege. I’m not going to go there,” she said...more