Posted on 09/13/2013 5:03:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
An amendment is moving through the Senate Judiciary Committee that would essentially allow the government to determine who is a journalist for purposes of legal protection of sources. For purposes of protecting a source, a “journalist” under law would be anyone who: Works or worked for “an entity or service that disseminates news or information by means of newspaper; nonfiction book; wire service; news agency; news website, mobile application or other news or information service…news program; magazine or other periodical…or through television or radio broadcast…” These people would have to have the “primary intent to investigate events and procure material in order to disseminate to the public news or information.” Opinion journalists might not be covered.
Bloggers and citizen journalists – citizens who commit acts of journalists without working for such an outlet – would not be covered, unless it was determined that “at the inception of the process of gathering the news or information sought, had the primary intent to investigate issues or events and procure material in order to disseminate to the public news or information.” In other words, the government – the Department of Justice – would now determine whether primary intent was news distribution or political concerns.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“Instead of focusing on acts of journalism, the law would identify people by employment status.”
acts of journalism are acts of journalism regardless of employment.
Who employed Ben Franklin?
No Ones paid me to post this thread .
I see a Supreme Curt case arising
BTTT!!!
Watch this...
“The Emperor has no clothes!”
“The Emperor has no clothes!”
“The Emperor has no clothes!”
Government has no such power.
The First Amendment right to free speech was meant to protect the rights of pamphleteers. Today’s “pamphleteers” are bloggers. The sick and very scary thing is that America is one Supreme Court vote away from big government tyranny; from Nazi America.
23. We demand laws to fight against deliberate political lies and their dissemination
by the press. In order to make it possible to create a German press, we demand:
a) all editors and editorial employees of newspapers appearing in the German
language must be German by race;
b) non-German newspapers require express permission from the State for
their publication. They may not be printed in the German language;
c) any financial participation in a German newspaper or influence on such a
paper is to be forbidden by law to non-Germans and the penalty for any
breech of this law will be the closing of the newspaper in question, as well
as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-Germans involved.
Newspapers which violate the public interest are to be banned. We
demand laws against trends in art and literature which have a destructive
effect on our national life, and the suppression of performances that offend
against the above requirements.
Nazi Party Platform 1920
When has that ever stopped them?
” Yeah, cuz the only ones who really question the Administration is people like Matt Drudge, who used to be a gift-shop clerk, and now runs a HIGHLY effective, (almost) one-man operation.”
You forgot to preface that with “the conservative “ Matt Drudge. Apparently if you report anything unflattering about the left you are a dreaded conservative. I’ve seen a lot of his headlines about the right and the left. They can’t stand that.
exactly right
We are all self-employed.
” The sick and very scary thing is that America is one Supreme Court vote away from big government tyranny; from Nazi America.”
Oh I think we passed that point a while back. With every one of the thousands of government agencies having their own SWAT team and this new cloud computing being hosted on NSA servers.
Let us pray all the justices remain in stellar health until we can remove ordrama from the Whitehouse
Authentic Government does not.
a tyranny wont care what rights it does or does not possess
Dear Fellow Un Documented Journalist,
Let us pray that the current makeup of the Supreme Court Remains unchanged until we can get a ruling on this “professional journalism” scheme.
Meshuge Mikey!
They’re not even trying to hide what they’re gonna do anymore.
Matt Drudge appears to have had a word for DiFi on this very issue
that word was FACIST
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
we are experiencing a “soft” tyranny...which can turn into a HARD TYRANNY at any given moment?
I hear Chairmen Obama has recently been fitted for a set of MAO jackets
Outlets that expose Liberal crimes and scandals will not be tolerated.
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