Bloggers Not Eligible for Shield Law?

Drew writes "Senator Richard Lugar (R.-Ind.), a co-sponsor to the Free Flow of Information Act 2005, has said that he does not expect bloggers to receive the protections proposed by the shield law under consideration. From the article: 'Are bloggers journalists or some of the commercial businesses that you here would probably not consider real journalists? Probably not, but how do you determine who will be included in this bill?' The bill is supposed to restore the Free Press in the US, Lugar said. But how can that be when there's no definition of 'journalist'?"

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Re:Amendment XIV

[Ignignot]

Insightful my ass. You make it sound like they can't make laws which restrict some people from doing certain things. Can a child molester live near a school? Can a blind person drive a car? Can a blogger who is not a member of the press and has never been to a school for journalism call himself a journalist?

Not a troll/flame but *$&*$&* off drew

[tod_miller]

(in case you think this is offensive, a flame or troll, make sure you read to the end)

Whine whine 'no definition of journalism' whine whine. Damnit.

Don't you see there is no definition of blogging you utter retard. You self righteous technologically stunted person you. Why, if you think 'paid and possibly respected journalists who have to content with something called reputation, hence the word reputable, in the phrase reputable source' shouldn't be placed over your wonderful simple life of write-what-I-want, or more accurately:

hit 'blog this' button and write the first thing that comes to my head, with aid of wikipedia, and link shit to every other page that comes from the google top 100.

Why if you think that, do you not think that NORMAL writing shouldn't be the same of writing that tries to be in the vein of a 'log' system.

Do you think that writing content without navigation or context, categories, real accountability, ordered by time descending somehow gives you a legal waiver in what you write?

Well here goes:

00:35 13/10/2005 : Drew is a gay man who likes to have gay sex with animals
13:56 12/10/2005 : Today I ate Ice Cream! Yippeee! read Penny Arcade.

Now, if you want to somehow sue me, or get my source, or somehow circumvent protections designs to allow credible, reputable (i.e. with a reputation, a license if you will) journalists, you can't why? Because my comment above isn't an ordinary comment, it is a blog comment!

That is the magic of blogs - entries, without navigation, in reverse chronological order.

b>Why should entries, without navigation, in reverse chronological order, be treated special? Tell, me damn it, maybe if you cannot find a reason, I will not have to loose it every time I see such stupid stories.

ok.