By Popular DU Request... Charles Pierce On DiFi Defining A Journalist And The Shield Law...

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49. If I can be thrown in jail, they can be thrown in jail.

Hell yes. We don't need a fascist government hiding behind so-called "journalists" who have been granted special privileges, do we?

Are you saying you want such a fascist government, that decides what is or is not "journalism," or are you saying we have a fascist government already? Or maybe you are saying something else?

Look, if someone posts some sort of muckraking reporting here on DU, then yes, I'd consider that journalism.

It's Freedom of the Press and in these days anyone can have a press. I could post something important from a public library. "No Gatekeepers" is the way journalism ought to be.

I'm also a believer in government transparency. It would be better to have EVERY Government activity transparent, better than the secrecy we've got now. No "secrets" at all. A lot of evil would shrivel up and die in that kind of light. I'd outlaw military secrets too, except the most basic sort, like where the nuclear weapons were stashed and how they were defended. These days most government secrecy exists only to hide utterly corrupt institutions.