{"id":19212,"date":"2013-09-13T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=19212"},"modified":"2013-09-13T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T23:01:01","slug":"sen-feinstein-pushes-regulate-first-amendment-bloggers-really-arent-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/sen-feinstein-pushes-regulate-first-amendment-bloggers-really-arent-reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen Feinstein Pushes to Regulate First Amendment: Bloggers &#8220;Really Aren&#8217;t Reporters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ToQpinKLklA?rel=0\" height=\"270\" width=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2013\/09\/matt-drudge-slams-dianne-feinstein-17-year-old-blogger-is-as-important-as-wolf-blitzer-fascist\/\">Matt Drudge<\/a> has it right this <del>woman<\/del> thing is an outright FASCIST! How dare she try to now define who can and cannot report on news and events?!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, FRANKENFEINSTEIN YOU FASCIST, if the media <strong>DID THEIR GOD DAMN JOBS<\/strong> bloggers and others like myself you deem &#8220;aren&#8217;t really reporters&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t have to do what we do! For the record I&#8217;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 <strong>GOD GIVEN NATURAL RIGHT<\/strong> to write about anything I see and hear. You and the rest of the FASCIST PROGRESSIVES in DC <strong>WILL NOT<\/strong> have a final say in what we do.<\/p>\n<p>My God America if now wasn&#8217;t a time to initiate recall elections across the country I don&#8217;t know what will! What the hell is wrong with the people in this country!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>WAKE THE HELL UP!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill to protect journalists clears Senate panel<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-shield-law-20130913,0,4553946.story\">By David G. Savage | LA Times<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-523324f8\/turbine\/la-na-shield-law-20130913-001\/600\" width=\"156\" height=\"103\" \/>WASHINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>But the new legal protections will not extend to the controversial online website Wikileaks and others whose principal work involves disclosing &#8220;primary-source documents \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 without authorization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senate sponsors of the bill and a coalition of media groups that support it hailed Thursday&#8217;s bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee vote as a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re closer than we&#8217;ve ever been before to passing a strong and tough media shield bill,&#8221; Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. &#8220;Thanks to important bipartisan compromises, we&#8217;ve put together a strong bill that balances the need for national security with that of a free press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final hurdle for the Judiciary Committee was defining who is a journalist in the digital era.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) insisted on limiting the legal protection to &#8220;real reporters&#8221; and not, she said, a 17-year-old with his own website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t support it if everyone who has a blog has a special privilege \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or if Edward Snowden were to sit down and write this stuff, he would have a privilege. I&#8217;m not going to go there,&#8221; she said.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-shield-law-20130913,0,4553946.story\">..more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[15136,8941,257,9987],"tags":[32876,32882,1183,1740,32879,2415,1407,3924,32880,18285,8223,32877,931,21488,32881,407,32878,32883],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}