Comments on: FECA and freedom of the press

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:41:20 +0000

I’d be interested in a take as to whether or not a bill like this, which affords a certain class of journalists special protections, would be constitutional.

And let’s be clear: the only way to make this bill specifically exclude bloggers is if it’s specifically written to exclude bloggers. In every substantial respect, many bloggers out there are doing things indistinguishable from what “mainstream journalists” do every day. In fact, many of them are journalists.

How would you distinguish between the two? Well, one usually writes for a corporation, and one usually doesn’t. Or one writes in print and the other writes on the web.

Doesn’t sound reasonable to me.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:03:58 +0000

The reporter served time in jail for obstruction of justice – aka hiding her informants of the CIA leak.

Reporters think they are oh-so-great because they report the news. Big F***ing deal.

The government just shouldn’t be providing special favors for people in high places.

PS: If they think Watergate is an excuse for protection, they are wrong. The informant in that case wasn’t breaking the law, he was ratting out the higher ups. In the Rove/Libby case, they possibly commited a crime by releasing the CIA agent’s name.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:41:59 +0000

Yeah information should be free to view no matter what it states.
If I want to put out videos, information, reports, or whatever, it should not be censored in any way.