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Sen. Feinstein Says only Salaried Journalists should be Protected by Shield Law
Monday, August 5, 2013 18:50
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The Supreme Court says that money equals speech, and now some in Washington want to pass a law that only writers being paid a money salary should be considered journalists.
That proposal was made on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) as a way to restrict the scope of a journalist shield law sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) that was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The push for such a law received new impetus in May as a result of revelations that the Justice Department had secretly seized the phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters and editors for more than two months and had secretly traced the phone calls and emails of a Fox News reporter.
Schumer’s proposed bill—basically a strengthened version of guidelines proposed recently by Attorney General Eric Holder—would protect reporters and news organizations from being forced by subpoenas or court orders to reveal the identities of confidential sources, unless a judge finds probable cause to believe a crime has been committed and the government has exhausted all other alternatives. The bill also requires the Justice Department to notify any reporters it chooses to monitor, but allows officials to delay that notice by 45 days and to ask a judge for no more than an additional 45 days.
