Senator Frankstein: You're not a journalist unless you draw a salary!

[The2ndAmendment]

That's right, if you're a journalist who makes a living from donations and sponsership, because the FREE MARKET enjoys the quality of your reporting, YOU ARE NOT A "TRUE" JOURNALIST.

Apparently, only people who are under the pressure of corporate overlords giving them a salary are considered "real" journalists.

Fits in nicely with Peter Thing's (King's) wish to imprison journalists that report any classified information.

And so it begins. The Government has declared itself the decider of who does, and who does not, qualify as a "journalist."

A "Media Shield Law" is not even necessary, since it's already enshrined in the First Amendment. This is obviously all a pretense to create a privilege class of journalists, and to deny or disparage that right to all others.

It is hard to imagine how any journalist that makes their living from the Free Market (subscription/sponsorship/donation), would be any less qualified than a reporter that is a slave to their respective corporate paymaster. In fact, it's the other way around, the salaried "agents" of the corporations are the inferior and least trustworthy of the reporters.

http://www.viralread.com/2013/08/05/senator-feinstein-real-reporters-are-salaried-under-shield-law/

During the hearing, Feinstein proposed an amendment to the bill that would make the law only apply to journalists she described as “real reporters.” Those include reporters who are “a salaried agent” of a media company such as a newspaper, broadcast news station, news website or another type of news service. As ABC reports, Feinstein was concerned “that the current version of the bill would grant a special privilege to people who aren’t really reporters at all, who have no professional qualifications.”

Who is government to determine who does, who does not, have the right qualifications to be a reporter. Isn't the FREE MARKET the best judge of that standard?

What would Peter Thing's and Dianne Frankstein's baby be like?

A real reporter, declared Madame Feinstein during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, is “a salaried agent” of a media company like the New York Times or ABC News, not a shoestring operation with volunteers and writers who are not paid.

Feinstein voiced her concern “that the current version of the bill would grant a special privilege to people who aren’t really reporters at all, who have no professional qualifications,” like bloggers and citizen journalists.

Can this Libtard explain her reasoning? Why would a journalist who makes money from donations and sponsorship be any less a journalist who is a slave to the corporate payroll? If anything, it is the OTHER WAY AROUND!

Related article:
Senators ponder if bloggers deserve First Amendment protection

 

[ClosedCaption]

Oh no!

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Oh no!

I wouldn't expect someone with a race baiting signature to think any differently.

 

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Oh no!

I wouldn't expect someone with a race baiting signature to think any differently.

I'm the race baiter? If I brought you a letter from your mother would you read it and call me mommy too?

 

[RoadVirus]

So....Hagstein has re-emerged from hibernation, having recovered from the beatdown over gun control.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

So....Hagstein has re-emerged from hibernation, having recovered from the beatdown over gun control.

The 2nd Amendment wasn't enough for her, now she has set her eyes on the key prize: The 1st Amendment, which protects communication and expression, basic societal tools.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell

Feinstein is trying to cut out anyone that doesn't work for one of the big six media companies. Freelance journalists aren't tied down by the threat of losing salary, they will and do put out some of the best and most revealing articles because they are not beholden to a paycheck or the threat of losing said paycheck.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Btw whenever someone asks who are the moderates in the Dem party. Look at Feinstein. No one likes her for shit like this:

Dianne Feinstein Says NSA Phone Records Surveillance Has Thwarted Terrorism, 'But That's Classified'

Dianne Feinstein Says NSA Phone Records Surveillance Has Thwarted Terrorism, 'But That's Classified'

 

[The2ndAmendment]

You're saying Feinstein is a moderate?

I got two words for that:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwrCEX1ElJ8]"Holy Shit" audio clip - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Politico]

Nothing like the Rightyloon twist. What she was addressing was how we live in a time where anyone with an internets connection in grandmas basement are calling themselves journaiists because they start a blog. They are not professionals.

 

[Saigon]

I'm a journalist and I agree with the Senator.

I meet people everyday who tell me "Hey - I'm a writer, too!" and then they tell me the amazing idea they have for a movie script.

Being a journalist means you get paid to produce journalism. Period.

 

[bripat9643]

I'm a journalist and I agree with the Senator.

You're also a servile government-worshiping toady, so it's no surprise that you agree that government should have control over journalism. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

 

[Saigon]

I'm a journalist and I agree with the Senator.

You're also a servile government-worshiping toady, so it's no surprise that you agree that government should have control over journalism. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

Jesus wept....where did I say government should control journalism?

Honestly, you post like someone who is about five years old.

And no, I am not right wing.

 

[editec]

One is a journalist to the extent that one actually has an audience.

I disagree that the litmus test is getting paid for it.

 

[Saigon]

One is a journalist to the extent that one actually has an audience.

I disagree that the litmus test is getting paid for it.

Well, yeah, that makes sense too, but I question anyone who has a profession but no income from it.

 

[FA_Q2]

Nothing like the Rightyloon twist. What she was addressing was how we live in a time where anyone with an internets connection in grandmas basement are calling themselves journaiists because they start a blog. They are not professionals.

No they are not. Now, could you please remind me when the bill of rights began to only protect ‘professionals’ rather than individuals…

That’s what I thought. You have first amendment rights whether you are a tin foil hat guy or a professional because the BoR is not a list of things the government can’t do to da subset of the population but rather a list of things the government can’t do to anyone without due process.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Btw whenever someone asks who are the moderates in the Dem party. Look at Feinstein. No one likes her for shit like this:

Dianne Feinstein Says NSA Phone Records Surveillance Has Thwarted Terrorism, 'But That's Classified'

Dianne Feinstein Says NSA Phone Records Surveillance Has Thwarted Terrorism, 'But That's Classified'

She's a Moderate Nazi.

Got it

 

[bripat9643]

I'm a journalist and I agree with the Senator.

You're also a servile government-worshiping toady, so it's no surprise that you agree that government should have control over journalism. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

Jesus wept....where did I say government should control journalism?

When you agree that government should determine which journalists are "legitimate," then you have agree to the first step on the road to control.

Honestly, you post like someone who is about five years old.

And no, I am not right wing.

Correct, you are a left-wing propagandist, just like Goebbels.

 

[Saigon]

When you agree that government should determine which journalists are "legitimate," then you have agree to the first step on the road to control.

Which quite obviously I don't agree with, you illiterate cretin.

btw: Goebbels was a Nazi. Nazis are RIGHT WING:

Major elements of Nazism have been described as far-right, such as allowing domination of society by people deemed racially superior, while purging society of people declared inferior, who were said to be a threat to national survival.

Nazism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[bripat9643]

When you agree that government should determine which journalists are "legitimate," then you have agree to the first step on the road to control.

Which quite obviously I don't agree with, you illiterate cretin.

You just got done saying "I agree with the Senator."

btw: Goebbels was a Nazi. Nazis are RIGHT WING:

we've had this discussion several times already. Nazis are socialists. They are leftwing.

Major elements of Nazism have been described as far-right, such as allowing domination of society by people deemed racially superior, while purging society of people declared inferior, who were said to be a threat to national survival.

Nazism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The eugenics movement was a creature of progressives. People like Woodrow Wilson and Margret Sanger were prominent supporters of Eugenics.

You fail again.