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| A Senate committee passed the media shield law this week that essentially allows the | |
| government to determine who is a real journalist for the purposes of protection. | |
| Based on the bill, a real journalist is someone who works or worked for an entity or service that shares news or information by means of a newspaper, wire service, a news agency or via a magazine or through television or radio broadcast. | |
| These people would have to have the primary intent to investigate events and procure material in order to share that information with the public. | |
| Opinion journalists might not be covered. | |
| Senator Feinstein worried the S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
| law would provide special privileges to those who are not reporters at all, saying those who don't receive a salary couldn't be considered real reporters. | |
| Now the S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
| law is very careful to distinguish real journalists from those who shouldn't be protected. | |
| This means bloggers and citizen journalists, unless they can prove to the government that at the inception of their information gathering process, their sole intent was to inform the public. | |
| The bill explicitly excludes protection for those whose principal function is to publish primary source documents that haven't been authorized. | |
| This means no WikiLeaks cables, no NSA leaks, just a rampant, unchecked government. | |
| This is in direct violation of the Constitution, which prohibits the making of any law abridging the freedom of speech or infringing on the freedom of the press. | |
| Doesn't the S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
| law actually abridge the freedom of speech of citizen journalists by intimidating them with the threat of prosecution? | |
| And the S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
| law also says they're going to protect real journalists from having to reveal their sources. | |
| So I guess the Fifth Amendment is only there to protect IRS officials who have committed criminal acts and perjury? | |
| What is actually happening here is the government is trying to take a fundamental right and turn it into a government-granted privilege. | |
| A privilege that can be revoked by them for any reason that they deem necessary in the future. | |
| They created the S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
| law to protect journalists, but only the journalists that they decide are worthy of protection. | |
| The S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
| law actually bypasses the First and Fifth Amendment by giving a virtual driver's license to those the government deems worthy of free speech. | |
| Basically, this shield law only protects the corporate media, and not citizen journalists who aren't willing to regurgitate the same government-vetted stories. | |
| It's not protection at all, but prior constraint. | |
| And even if you are a real journalist, like Michael Hastings, if you get a little too controversial, you'll be investigated by the FBI. | |
| So why is the Obama administration so vigorously attacking the alternative press? | |
| It's because the mainstream media is dead. | |
| The authentic media is winning the war for the minds of the people. | |
| That's why the Obama administration is protecting its lapdog journalists while instilling fear in those that might dare ask questions. | |
| Obama's hired even more journalists to be a part of his team. | |
| Up to 19 journalists from influential outlets like ABC, CNN, The Washington Times and LA Times are going to work for the very administration they should be holding accountable. | |
| So don't expect any of those journalists to report on their bosses' debacles like Obamacare or the illegal NSA spying and wiretapping or Benghazi. | |
| Maybe Obama needed more journalists on his Transforming America team for the big rollout of government-funded news after the recent repeal of the domestic propaganda ban. | |
| Those journalists can now use their talent to influence public opinion. |
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