This allows you to publish anything at all without fear of reprisal.
It's very hard to apply pressure to a blog poster when you can't find out who s/he is.
The problem here...is that it’s not really the government’s job to go and define work, professions, or status.
Will we now ask to have a defined piece of legislation for bounty hunters, septic tank installation guys, farmers, orange-pickers, Texas honky-tonk bartenders, DJ’s, meth lab technicians, magicians, Yankee 3rd basemen, lousy TV actors, gameshow hosts, cattle ranchers, trailer park hosts, or Senators?
If this is going to be a priority...then we probably need to create a new branch of the government, and give the daily job of writing job descriptions, and expect 400,000 pages of text each week.
This allows you to publish anything at all without fear of reprisal.
It's very hard to apply pressure to a blog poster when you can't find out who s/he is.
No Hunter S. Thompsons wanted by the left, if it includes Michael Yons.
You mean get payed under the table to distort, lie, and support rats and thier agenda
REAL SENATORS ARE SENILE IDIOTS LIKE FEINSTEIN AND JOHN MCCAINE!!!
But medal of freedumb recipient Okra Winfrey is a journalist?
Babs—like Dingy Harry and his Magic Negro dialect comment—trying to convince us that 2+2=5.
Theycanbothblowme.
The left just can’t stand being exposed by “real” journalists.
There is no such thing as THE PRESS in the sense that term is used by elitist Progressives today — some sort of elite group whose members are allowed preferential treatment under law. In the Constitutional sense, “the press” is a technological device for disseminating information.
One cannot be a “member” of the press. One can only have access to a press.
Any device which enables one to state and publicize one’s views is a “press,” whether it be moveable type, offset, TV, radio, or the Internet. We all have free access to “the press,” meaning we have the right to pay any provider who wishes to sell us access to publicize our ideas.
In this regard, no CBS anchor has anymore claim to special treatment for being part of “the press” than does any blogger.
Even before the internet the press could not be defined by employer or paycheck because there were dozens of freelance reporters that were regularly published. They were paid by the story.
If Feistein had her way being a reporter would become a licensed profession complete with required education andcertification.
Another attempt by our legislators to add to the web of tens of thousands of laws no citizen has the time to read or contemplate but which can be use arbitrarily by the state to crush any individual who stands against tyranny.
We need fewer laws and more common sense, not more laws driven by a political agenda.
Liars draw salaries, too. There are 500 some odd in Washington DC doing such right now.
I am all for this effort!
Curiously, I was JUST TODAY hired by LazamaBlogs, Inc.
My salary is $0.01 a year.
I QUALIFY!
Sen. Feinstein During ‘Shield’ Law Debate: ‘Real’ Journalists Draw Salaries
Real Americans do not become Democrat Senators.......
So I guess pro bono work is not done by a REAL attorney.
Yeah, the libtards can fix this. Look for a “journalist” license in the works.