Scott Bomboy
Yahoo News
August 5, 2013
As the U.S. Senate continues to debate a national law to protect
journalists from protecting their sources, two Senators believe unpaid
bloggers and websites like WikiLeaks shouldn’t get extended First
Amendment protections.
The Senate Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 would establish a
national “shield law” that would give journalists protection from
testifying in situations when investigators want the sources of
confidential information used in media reports.
The Free Flow of Information Act was introduced earlier this year by
Senator Charles Schumer, who had introduced a similar bill in 2009 with
the late Senator Arlen Specter. Back then, Feinstein and Durbin wanted
strict definitions of the word “journalists” after the WikiLeaks story
broke.
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