As the U.S. Senate continues to debate a national law to protect journalists from protecting their sources, two Senators believe unpaid bloggers and websites like WikiLeaks shouldn't get extended FirstAmendment protections.
As the U.S. Senate continues to debate a national law to protect journalists from protecting their sources, two Senators believe unpaid bloggers and websites like WikiLeaks shouldn't get ...
It is a major decision and one that further challenges the effort of Feinstein and others to strip bloggers of protections under media shield laws. The "new media" obviously concerns many politicians like Feinstein, who show the same hostility to bloggers as her predecessors once showed to the media before New York Times v.
The Feinstein-Durbin proposed amendment would narrowly define journalists as "a salaried agent" of a media company. Feinstein also reportedly said that the bill shouldn't apply to WikiLeaks or "a 17-year-old who drops out of high school, buys a website for $5 and starts a blog." See the rest here. =====
To a 17-year-old who drops out of school and buys a website for $5 and starts a blog," said Feinstein. Her amendment, which failed to pass the committee in 2009, looks to provide this protection - or shield — to salaried employees, agents and independent contractors associated with a news organization.
There was an important decision last week in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in which a panel ruled that bloggers are entitled to the same protections as journalists. The decision is in sharp contrast to the view of Senator Dianne Feinstein and Obama Administration officials who have fought against such…
A Jan. 17 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reaffirmed that the FirstAmendment's guarantee of press freedom applies to bloggers on the Internet and not ...
It also offends Constitutionalists who believe it to be a serious violation of the FirstAmendment. Feinstein ostensibly targets bloggers who reveal national security information, which today is expanded to virtually anything negative of the government, but her example is "a 17-year old with his own website."
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law - an irrelevant law ignoring protection already afforded by the FirstAmendment - that would limit the law's ...
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