Posted on 09/15/2013 7:53:03 AM PDT by yoe
Dear Fellow Undocumented Journalist :
I will spread that phrase far and wide.
“A pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets. Pamphlets were used to broadcast the writer’s opinions on an issue, for example, in order to get people to vote for their favorite politician or to articulate a particular political ideology.
A famous pamphleteer of the American Revolutionary War was Thomas Paine. Another famous pamphleteer was Witte the With, with perhaps the most prestigious use of the title going to John Milton. Today a pamphleteer might communicate his missives by way of weblog, but before the advent of telecommunications, those with access to a printing press and a supply of paper used the pamphlet as a means of mass communications outside of newspapers or full-fledged books.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphleteer
Hey Sen. Feinstein, Drudge, “17 year old bloggers” et.al. are just “environmentally conscious” pamphleteers who print electronically, to save the trees, don’t you know.
John Milton’s contribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagitica
Another famous pamphleteer, perhaps the most important in all of human history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
His work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses
Well said. This is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent flap. When the toe of government encroaches into free speech, it is a matter of time before that 800 pound gorilla gets in.
Argentina:
“As a result of the ongoing authoritarian crackdown on not only individual liberties, but economic data, it has gotten to the point that the government is criminally prosecuting anyone who dares to publish independent inflation data.
Because when the truth conflicts with propaganda, either the “truth” is made up, as the BLS showed last week, or it becomes a crime to report the truth.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-14/dare-question-argentinas-inflation-data-prepare-go-jail
Ms. Feinstein’s definition of a “real reporter” is any one who agrees with her!!!
Yes. It is fascist. The First Amendment doesn’t say a darn thing about “journalists” just about freedom of the press.
If there is going to be “shield law” it should be for everybody, or there should be no shield law.
Why do journalists even special privileges in the first place? That’s fascism in itself.
What makes California a focal point of this issue is that there was a high-profile criminal case in the news (the Barry Bonds BALCO case) in which a reporter who was "shielded" under California law was prosecuted in Federal court because the BALCO investigation was a Federal case, not a state case.
Just some food for thought. In addition to opposing this Federal bill, it's high time we start gutting the various individual state "shield laws" as well.
EXCELLENT!
The law will be used to institutionalize our own Tass and Pravda.
Wire service journalism - both the wire services themselves and the individual outlets thereof - claim to be objective. But claiming virtue - whether wisdom or objectivity - leads directly and inevitably to sophistry.
Agree completely!
You forget, to be a true urinalist you must pee on the truth, not dig it out.
VRW Conspirator wrote:
“When the toe of government encroaches” ....
It becomes the infestation inside your refrigerator machinery, with the only solution, throw the darn thing out, and start new!
Keep me in the loop, please? Love to see the stuff!
This law will stop us from being able to critique politicians... except in the very sweetest terms - or we’ll get sued. Personally sued.
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