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  • Bill would give journalists shield - ".. reluctant to put themselves in a special class"

    04/02/2005 11:38:56 PM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 31 replies · 803+ views
    Houston Texas ^ | April 3, 2005 | JEFFREY GILBERT
    AUSTIN - For years journalists have been hesitant to lobby for a shield law to protect their notes and tapes, but now is the time, many say, before it becomes too late. "We run the very real risk of seeing our reporters and photographers and editors jailed for simply doing their jobs," said Donnis Baggett, publisher of the Bryan-College Station Eagle and legislative chairman of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas Press Association. "We are on dangerously thin ice." A Senate committee heard testimony last week on a bill that would give journalists a qualified privilege for the...