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

[benjamindees]

Interesting indeed. And, look, our AC friend has responded to your insight with more mindless dribble, failing to comprehend (or read even?) the passage in question. Probably he is one of these dipshits who nowadays have convinced themselves that the words in the Constitution have no real meaning. This AC in particular seems to be influenced by the growth of nationalist bullshit in the US (and around the world) beginning in and throughout the 20th century.

So, of course, he's convinced himself that only citizens are worthy of the rights and protections of the Constitution. No doubt he picked up these views in connection with some sort of US military organization, since many of those organizations have adopted and like to spread the Oriental-Jewish view of conscription as a rite of passage into citizenship.