Posted on 06/07/2011 8:09:45 AM PDT by Rational Thought
In general judges must be scared of new media communication.
crazy judges can be exposed by a single post.
Then viciously flaming away when one says: apparently the guy shot made some bad life decisions.
And when shown the error of their one sided argument, you get an idiotic response like: nice try, no cigar.
Come to think of it... ignorant people running their mouths at the expense of other people should be sued. Good luck trying to collect though. It's not likely such stupid people accumulated a lot of money. LoL!
I believe the statute or rule does protect newspapers. Well it protects their souces, the newspaper can still be sued for libel.
freaking morons....
Excellent contribution, EBH. Worth knowing
CIA Definition of ‘News Media’ for FOIA Requests Could Include Citizen Journalists
http://www.citmedialaw.org/cia-definition-news-media-foia-requests-could-include-citizen-journalists
Posted July 23rd, 2007 by David Ardia
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GovernmentExecutive.com is reporting that the CIA has adopted a new definition of “news media” that could significantly reduce the fees and costs for citizen journalists who request documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
The new rule, which became effective on July 18, 2007, adopts the definition of “news media” contained in a 1987 Office of Management and Budget FOIA guidebook that includes “alternative media” that are disseminated electronically “through telecommunications.” The CIA’s final rule states:
Representative of the News Media refers to any person actively gathering news for an entity that is organized and operated to publish or broadcast news to the public. The term “news” means information that is about current events or that would be of current interest to the public. Examples of news media entities include television or radio stations broadcasting to the public at large, and publishers of periodicals (but only in those instances when they can qualify as disseminators of “news”) who make their products available for purchase or subscription by the general public. These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive. Moreover, as traditional methods of news delivery evolve (e.g., electronic dissemination of newspapers through telecommunications services), such alternative media would be included in this category. In the case of “freelance” journalists, they may be regarded as working for a news organization if they can demonstrate a solid basis for expecting publication through that organization, even though not actually employed by it. A publication contract would be the clearest proof, but agencies may also look to the past publication record of a requestor in making this determination: * * * * *
What this new definition means is that citizen journalists would likely be on the same footing as members of traditional news media who, along with educational, noncommercial, and scientific groups, have a special status under FOIA because they do not have to pay fees for the agency to search and review requested documents and are only charged for duplication costs after the first 100 pages. See 32 CFR sec. 1900.13. Morever, if a citizen journalist can show that the disclosure of the documents is in the public interest, he or she can have the duplication costs waived as well.
“there is no doubt that this is a violation of 14th Amendment equal protection”
agreed; thanks
>>>How is someone in New Jersey going to sue someone in Washington state in State Court?<<<
They can sue but the finding of that lawsuit has no bearing in Washington State.
California’s Franchise Tax Board (FTB) sued my family over a tax year in which we had lived in Wyoming the entire year and when a California court predictably ruled against us a Wyoming judge informed the FTB that the California ruling had no effect in Wyoming and that any attempt to enforce that ruling in Wyoming would be opposed by the force of law in Wyoming.
When the FTB showed up at our home near Cody to serve a search and seizure warrant we called the highway patrol who showed up PDQ and escorted the FTB off of our property and that was that.
Not to mention it's the same court that ignored the plain election law to put Lautenberg on the ballot when it was way past the deadline to do so.
White “journalists” are just as stupid. So it’s not racist, just fascistic.
TOR?
This is setting a dangerous precedent. God help us.
Fortunately my tenure in this life will keep me from having to put up with too much of the looking glass this once great country has become.
sigh
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ofspeechnews media, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
There, I fixed it.
(We don't need no skeenkin' constitutional amendment process)
There, I fixed it."Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech news media, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"News media" is overrestrictive by far.And the exact problem we now have is the monopoly enjoyed by the wire service mentality on the idea of objectivity. That is, they have successfully positioned themselves as being objective, and they use that position of assumed authority to censor the truth. They have done so since the memory of living man runneth not to the contrary.The AP was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act back in 1945. But back then, the AP seemed "too big to fail." By now, tho, the putative mission of the AP - to conserve bandwidth while transmitting the news - is an anachronism. At this point either one of us, I dare say, could afford as much bandwidth as the AP used in 1945.
Anybody who claims to be objective is selling something.
Anyone who is actually trying to be objective is far too busy considering the possible reasons why he might not be objective to ever make that claim.
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