Comments on: A flaw in the proposed federal shield law for journalism? http://www.ojr.org/p1811/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=p1811 Focusing on the future of digital journalism Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ken Sands http://www.ojr.org/p1811/#comment-2191 Ken Sands Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:13:45 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1811#comment-2191 To me, the most troubling aspect of the federal media shield law is the notion of the federal government defining who is or isn’t a journalist.

BTW, why do you refer to commenters on the Illinois website as “bloggers?”

]]> By: Rodney Stevens http://www.ojr.org/p1811/#comment-2190 Rodney Stevens Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:46:24 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1811#comment-2190 I agree, the law seems to unfairly give the reporter the upperhand if he makes a mistake, whether it is deliberate or not. If the media can go out and expose all these people for their wrong doings, why should the government at all protect them for theirs. This is a free and equal country so why are we getting to a period in it where that is no longer true, maybe the government should really sit back and think about what they are doing

]]> By: Matt Duffy http://www.ojr.org/p1811/#comment-2189 Matt Duffy Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:26:34 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1811#comment-2189 Great point — particularly about the murder case. Too often we hide behind our First Amendment rights and ignore the need to act as a responsible member of the community.

BTW, I’ve started a blog dedicated to following unnamed sourcing: http://www.anonymoussources.org. It’s the subject of my doctoral dissertation as well.

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