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Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law
An anonymous reader writes "The US press has been pushing for a (much needed) federal shield law, that would allow reporters to protect their sources. It's been something of a political struggle for a few years now, and things were getting close when Wikileaks suddenly got a bunch of attention for leaking all those Afghan war documents. Suddenly, the politicians involved started working on an amendment that would specifically carve out an exception for Wikileaks so that it would not be covered by such a shield law. And, now, The First Amendment Center is condemning the newspaper industry for throwing Wikileaks under the bus, as many in the industry are supporting this new amendment, and saying that Wikileaks doesn't deserve source protection because 'it's not journalism.'"
Journalism is not an industry, it's a vocation.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
They control you all the time.
Heck, all they have to do is bring out a gun control argument and you probably get so worked up that you don't read the bond issues and vote "Yes" for all of them because you don't realize a bond issue is just a pretty way of saying "vote YES to raise your taxes".
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I completely have faith in the state run media.
I was the product of government schools,
I was taught that our elected officials know better then us.
I was taught we had system of checks and balances.
I was taught money was evil.
Everything I was taught was bullshit, and I called them on it.
This does not help with grades.
I completely have faith in the state run media.
To report what the federal government wants them to report and hide the truth.
They abused the Commerce Clause, Viva 10th amendment!!!!!
It doesn't seem to have damaged Chomsky's career.
He made some breakthroughs in Linguistics, but it's a very competitive field. So he moved on to a new career as an 'opinion pundit' and has done pretty well with it.
I think if the New York Times gave Chomsky a regular column his luster would have worn off by now. (obviously they won't because there's a conspiracy to keep him from being heard, yes we knew that)
I'll respond to you, since you have the lowest UID:
Boy, you dumbfucks suck at the reading comprehension, eh?
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
A lot longer than that, if you believe/read Chomsky. Challenging the wrong people is a career damaging move.
So is defending the Khmer Rouge.
Right, because what Wikileaks does can be called journalism rather than a source of sensationalised attention whoring for Assange.
You should be ashamed of yourself, it really is unfuckingbelievable how you can be so against the crap journalist do and be so fucking stupid to not realize that you're just worshiping Assange like Fox news worships republicans and CNN worships democrats.
You really need to pull your head out of your ass and get some unfuckingbelievable perspective so you don't sound so unfuckingbelievably stupid.
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maybe you should try a few more words when you search with your favorite search engine, google... perhaps, "the evolution of language"