I AM A JOURNALIST. SO ARE YOU.

[JDPriestly]

65. Depends. A lot of bloggers are journalists.

They report on news items in their area.

On the other hand, one of the reasons (there were a number of them) that I stopped my subscription to my local newspaper was that they did not adequately and critically report the news. My local paper which had a reputation as a leading big city newspaper was copying a lot of stories from the AP and other news bureaus. When it came to reporting in the run-up to the war in Iraq it failed to report on the fraud and falsehoods that were being presented as evidence of WMDs in and Al Qaeda cooperation with Iraq.

Even when the Downing Street Memos came out, the newspaper failed to adequately report on the lies that had been used to get the US into the war. It was shameful.

I had to turn to internet bloggers to get the real news, the true stories about what was going on.

The Feinstein, Shumer effort to silence and intimidate news reporters is about the lowest thing I have heard of yet in Washington, D.C.

Even William Randolph Hearst must be turning over in his grave. It is shocking to think that Congress would attempt to silence the reporting of news in this way. It is indefensible by anyone. Only a paid shill would approve of it.