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Bloggers Not Eligible for Shield Law?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shell-games-and-other-fun dept.

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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  1. Definition of journalist by thc69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm..Journalist....

    Doesn't it have something to do with fail-safe filesystems?

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  2. Re:Good. They shouldn't be. by stanmann · · Score: 3, Funny

    You are right, only logged in users should be considered Journalists, Anonymous cowards and the like are just slime.[/sarcasm]

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  3. Just Remember... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 2, Funny
    And as much as I hate that fucktard Rush Limbuagh

    Any day you get to correctly use "fucktard" in a sentence, be it with the family, at work, or on slashdot, is a good, good day.

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  4. Re:Simple... by soundvessel · · Score: 2, Funny
    A journalist is someone who makes a bona-fide attempt to report news reasonably seen as in the public interest. For example, reporting or commentary on politics, religion, Tara Reid's breasts is all news. Reposting an article from the Times is not.
    *wakes up*

    What, huh? Is there something new about Tara Reid's breasts that I haven't heard? Are you withholding information from the public?