Feinstein Narrows Definition of a "Journalist"

[AuH20]

http://www.infowars.com/feinstein-youre-not-a-real-journalist-unless-you-draw-a-salary/

[luctor-et-emergo]

A real reporter, declared Madame Feinstein during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, is “a salaried agent” of a media company like the New York Times or ABC News, not a shoestring operation with volunteers and writers who are not paid.
What about FREELANCE journalists ? (myself included)

Apart from that fatal error there is the following, these are quotes from wikipedia; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism)


Journalism is the activity, or product, of journalists or others engaged in the preparation of written, visual, or audio material intended for dissemination through public media with reference to factual, ongoing events of public concern. It is intended to inform society about itself and to make events public that would otherwise remain private.[1]


In modern society, news media are the chief purveyor of information and opinion about public affairs. Journalism, however, is not to be confused with the news media or the news itself. In some nations, the news media is government-controlled and not an independent body that operates within journalistic frameworks.[2] In democratic societies, access to information can play a key role in a system of checks and balances designed to limit the overreach of powers concentrated in governments, businesses and other entities and individuals. Access to verifiable information gathered by independent media sources adhering to journalistic standards can also provide ordinary citizens with the tools they need to participate in the political process.

Furthermore;

The recent rise of social media has resulted in arguments to reconsider journalism as a process rather than as a particular kind of news product. In this perspective, journalism is participatory, a process distributed among multiple authors and involving journalists as well as the socially mediating public.[10]

I rest my case.

PS: Feinstein probably does not see Wikipedia as a legitimate encyclopedia either since it's put together by volunteers...

[Contumacious]

http://www.infowars.com/feinstein-youre-not-a-real-journalist-unless-you-draw-a-salary/

"California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law – an irrelevant law ignoring protection already afforded by the First Amendment – that would limit the law’s protection only to “real reporters,” not bloggers and other upstart alternative media types."

According to Senator Fiendstain , a "real reporter" (wink,wink) is one who is a member of the Tb CCCP network. Someone who understands that when the government does it it means its not a crime.

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[Cleaner44]

Of course this is all about propaganda. It is essential for politicians that the media release a controlled message. What Feinstein wants to pretend is a journalist is really the MSM that more and more people distrust everyday. There is a major difference between a free press and what that old Marxist want to define as a journalist.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Media companies and their salaried employees are bought and paid for by government in a Fascist partnership. MSNBC, CNN, et al, basically has their own wing in the White House. We all witnessed first hand of the "salaried media so-called reporters" at the Pentagon press conference worried about their "SALARY". One big happy insider family between these salaried press employees(Correspondents Dinners, parties, Exclusive Press Club, etc) and government.

Marxist dictator Dianne Feinstein's plan is... for a 'cozy controlled information state' between 'APPROVED' aka corporate propaganda press core and government. It's a plan for complete control on the global PROPAGANDA media front(GOOGLE Al-Jazeera & CIA). The last thing these Marxist-Fascists want is an; independent, unaffiliated, unbridled media, free critical questioning, reporting the truth and exposing the lies and fraud of government.

One only has to look at Feinstein's voting on bailing out her "brothers in money" against the wishes of her constituents she is suppose to represent AND her last election, where she refused to any debates against her republican challenger(UNBELIEVABLE) in the general election. US Senator Dianne Feinstein didn't want all her; insider trading, graft, corruption, kickbacks, Richard Blume government contracts, etc, exposed, and this is the individual that advocating controlled press? Shows you just how ignorant and brainwashed Californians have become, by rigged corporate media's dividing of masses and having people vote party lines.

Dianne Feinstein has committed treason, protected illegal/unconstitutional spying on innocent Americans repeatly, destroying of the US Constitution, a pusher of covert wars, Big Secret Borg Government, and a killer of American mundanes that are falsely thrown into battling for the master's global conquests. Feinstein's security clearances should be immediately revoked and removed from her committee appointments, but unfortunately, we all know the corruptOcrats, DC tyrannical governance, and ZERO rule of Law insider the Washington DC beltway.

Here's another reason... keep the propagandists(salaried press core) employed, and the Oz behind the curtain feeding the deception to the willfully ignorant country.

Pentagon 'SALARIED reporter' caught complaining he’ll be laid off if Ron Paul wins
Thursday, January 5, 2012 15:35 EDT
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/cspan_pentagon_reporters_120105d.jpg

Topics: pentagon (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/tag/pentagon/) ♦ President Barack Obama (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/tag/president-barack-obama/) ♦ ron paul (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/tag/ron-paul/) ♦ Dianne Feinstein (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/tag/ron-paul/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuy4ZSyEuvg

[donnay]

Hey Feinstein our founders put this out for a reason!

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

[Brian4Liberty]

What else would you expect from a fascist like Feinstein?

[VoluntaryAmerican]

More analysis:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130807/13153224102/sen-feinstein-during-shield-law-debate-real-journalists-draw-salaries.shtml

[Anti Federalist]

Pravda.

[JK/SEA]

Pravda.

pfft..bunch of amateurs compared to U.S. government run media, but yeah, point taken.

[JK/SEA]

THIS.

''A little history lesson...
There was once a man, several hundred years ago. He drew his salary not through journalism, but as a customs agent (and occasionally he would help design bridges, candles).

Then one day, he wrote a leaflet, and signed it anonymously. This leaflet was distributed widely.

According to Sen. Feinstein, this man, who did not draw a salary from journalism, did not deserve First Amendment protections for publishing his leaflet.

The man is Mr. Thomas Paine. The time was January, 1776. The leaflet was Common Sense.

And fortunately for us, Supreme Court precedent is on our side. From Lovell v. Griffin, (1938) Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote in the majority's unanimous opinion,

“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our own history abundantly attest.”

[better-dead-than-fed]

would limit the law’s protection only to “real reporters,” not bloggers and other upstart alternative media types.

And yet bloggers are real enough to the government in other contexts:

"CONTACT WITH MEDIA: [Prisoners] may not have any contact with representatives of television stations, radio stations, newspapers or magazines, and/or blogs...."; (footnote 2 here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nM2pX8LnUntYJJpPzokxsZAs0gRXy9MGK3qPwZRySlI/pub))
"The government requests this ... Court to instruct the parties to refrain from making 'any statement to members of any television, radio, newspaper, magazine, internet (including, but not limited to, bloggers), or other media organization about this case....'" (USA v Barrett Brown, docket 81 (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5ZYXb_HdIQhTnJQblliMVRwR1E/edit?usp=sharing), page 12)

[Carson]

Category:Types of journalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Types_of_journalism


Journalist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist


Bitch

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bitch

[Cap]

This old adage just keeps popping up. "He who controls the language, controls the argument".

[LibForestPaul]

THIS.

''A little history lesson...
There was once a man, several hundred years ago. He drew his salary not through journalism, but as a customs agent (and occasionally he would help design bridges, candles).

Then one day, he wrote a leaflet, and signed it anonymously. This leaflet was distributed widely.

According to Sen. Feinstein, this man, who did not draw a salary from journalism, did not deserve First Amendment protections for publishing his leaflet.

The man is Mr. Thomas Paine. The time was January, 1776. The leaflet was Common Sense.

And fortunately for us, Supreme Court precedent is on our side. From Lovell v. Griffin, (1938) Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote in the majority's unanimous opinion,

“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our own history abundantly attest.”

Need to stop seeing ruling class as three seperate american powers. It is one power, global in nature. The SC is not on 'our' side, the United States Congress is not on our side, the President and commander in chief is not on our side.

[devil21]

This bill needs more coverage. Here's some more info on it.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/US_Senator_Feinstein_Seeks_to_Further_Limit_Freedo m_of_Press/28117/0/38/38/Y/M.html

[DamianTV]

This thread needs to be bumped ad infinitum. Its too important to let it slip into the back pages of RPF.

[GunnyFreedom]

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/congress/feinstein-hitler.jpg