Durbin to Bloggers: Drop Dead
Dick Durbin’s formal definition of a journalist deserving of protection under a proposed federal shield law has set the blogosphere on fire, namely because the blogosphere isn’t included.
Dick Durbin has declared war on the blogosphere
Under an amendment backed by Durbin and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.), only those working for “a newspaper, book, magazine, or other periodical” would be shielded from testifying in court about their confidential sources.
“Not included: student journalists, amateur bloggers, or even freelancers working without a contract,” reports the Nieman Journalism Lab.
The rightosphere and the leftosphere have joined together to make Durbin a marked man.
“Democrats trying to criminalize citizen journalism,” the Washington Examiner says.
“Help! Help! I’m/You’re being repressed! (seriously),” Firedoglake says.
Even traditional media is outraged.
Read More: By STEVE RHODES, NBC Chicago
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Feinstein and Durbin We need to get rid of this kind of thinking.
We must vote them out ASAP !!!!!