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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 21, 2014
Citizen journalists may soon be intimidated into silence by government.
New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer
said today the Senate has the votes to pass a bill that will protect
corporate journalists from court issued demands to reveal their sources.
The White House, Democrats and Independents and five Republicans in the
Senate support passing the legislation.
The law will protect “covered”
journalists defined as an employee, independent contractor or agent of
an entity that disseminates news or information, according to the
Associated Press.
In other words, if this law is enacted, citizen journalists and bloggers not affiliated with corporations may be subpoenaed and forced by law to reveal sources.
The First Amendment does not explicitly
protect journalists. However, by the 1970s, most states had shield laws
in place to protect journalists from revealing their sources and going
to jail for failure to do so.
