Senate Committee Passes Media Shield Bill That Defines Journalists
Keeping Wikileaks out
Journalists and bloggers who report news to the public will be protected from being forced to testify about their work under a media shield bill passed by a Senate committee Thursday.
But the new legal protections will not extend to the controversial online website Wikileaks and others whose principal work involves disclosing "primary-source documents … without authorization."
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Now that the government is going to start unlawful regulation of the 1st amendment maybe journalist will start to understand how gun owners feel about the governments unlawful regulations of the second amendment. NOT.