The answer is simple: Leftwing journalists will be shielded.The Reporters Committer for Freedom of the Press wants to protect not just reporters from established news organizations but everyone who writes anything, which means that almost anyone with a laptop and a Web site could claim to be protected from having to provide grand jury testimony. This Congress will never pass such an expansive shield, and we aren't sure it should.4 posted on 02/23/2005 7:33:17 AM EST by ClearCase_guy
As the article suggested, that coverage would be too broad to pass, and so either the law will be voted down or else the protections very limited (which in my opinion would not be a bad result). - PiranhaIMHO you are exactly correct. The Wall Street Journal takes too much of an establishment position here, for my taste. Codes of journalistic ethics aren't enforcable in court and have nothing to do with the law. That being the case, the law should have nothing to do with them, either. Whatever law makes sense to apply to "established news organizations" makes sense for bloggers; whatever law does NOT make sense to apply to bloggers does NOT make sense for "established news organizations."I'm delighted that recognition of the rights of
the bloggerswe-the-people are being promoted by The Reporters Committer for Freedom of the Press.Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
BTTT!!!!!