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Democrats trying to criminalize citizen journalism
lgstarr —
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By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 12/03/09 5:10 PM EST An amendment to a bill currently being considered by the Senate would deny ordinary citizens doing vital investigations in the public interest the same legal protections as professional journalists. If it were to become law, the change could ...1 week ago -
An Equal Press Shield
Daily Kos —
Authority: 793
Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee adopted language proposed by Senators Specter, Schumer and Graham which will treat blogger-journalists as equals when it comes to the protections of a federal press shield, the evidentiary privilege which allows journalists in most states to protect the confidential ...1 week ago -
Bloggers Beware Feinstein And Durbin
Logistics Monster —
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Does anybody want to continue to argue that the democrats in power are not fascists, or that they do not want total control over everything we do, say, eat, use, etc.?From the Washington Examiner.Democrats trying to criminalize citizen journalismAn amendment to a bill currently being considered by the Senate would ...1 week ago -
Feinstein and Durbin seeking to narrow shield law’s scope
Nieman Journalism Lab —
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Senators Diane Feinstein and Dick Durbin are attempting to narrow the definition of a journalist in the federal shield law under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning. Their amendment would limit protection from testifying to professional journalists working for “a newspaper, book, magazine, ...1 week ago -
Act To Protect Online Press Equality
Daily Kos —
Authority: 793
If you read Markos diary last night , you know the deal: the Senate Judiciary Committee is meeting this morning to discuss the long-awaited extension of press shield protections into federal courts. The key question up for grabs in S. 448 is who counts as a "journalist" and therefore can generally protect her ...1 week ago -
Sens. Feinstein and Durbins attack on citizen journalism
Daily Kos —
Authority: 793
The Senate is currently considering a media shield law, pushed by media outfits that want federal protection for their journalists. The legislation originally had a broad definition of "journalist", but that was curtailed thanks to the efforts of two then-unnamed Democratic senators: For citizen journalists, ...1 week ago -
Press Shield Law Warranted
Newsroom Magazine —
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WashingtonNewsroom Magazine supports a national shield law to protect journalists from governmental interdiction and/or court orders that restrict journalistic freedoms.Such a law must free journalists from threat of litigation, strictly limit governmental rights to place them under duress by means of unwarranted ...3 weeks ago -
U.S. Senate: Free Flow of Information Act
Newsroom Magazine —
Authority: 127
To maintain the free flow of information to the public byproviding conditions for the federally compelled disclosureof information by certain persons connected with thenews media.United States SenateFull Text of S. 448, Final Substitution, Dated October 29, 2010With the support of the Obama administration, the final ...4 weeks ago -
U.S. Senate: Free Flow of Information Act
Newsroom Magazine —
Authority: 127
To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.United States SenateFree Flow Of Information ActWith the support of the Obama administration, the final substitute press shield bill, to ...4 weeks ago -
U.S. Senate: Free Flow of Information Act
Newsroom Magazine —
Authority: 127
To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.United States SenateFree Flow Of Information ActWith the support of the Obama administration, the final substitute press shield bill, to ...4 weeks ago
