I'll tell you what they're trying to accomplish. They're trying to make sure that nobody reports on anything explosive that is not a corporate sponsored journalist.
Media markets have a beautiful mechanism for controlling thought. If it costs important artificial people profit, it's not going to be said. If it makes lots of money for the right people it's going to get wonderful press. I think the whole idea is to make sure that regular people do not get the opportunity to expose things that run counter the corporate agenda. You can try, but be prepared to be treated like Josh Wolf if things get out of hand. The idea that government should protect a citizen's freedom of speech is so pre-20th century. The only right a citizen has to media these days is to pay to consume it. This definition of journalism is to ensure that the rules of the market will apply to all news. There will be none of that bullshit 'public interest' crap to have to deal with. Personally it makes me sick and more than a little frightened. We're all in for a terrible wake up call. Cheers, Ron Watson On the Web: Pawsitive Vybe K9Disc.com Art of K9Disc Discdog Radio Discdog TV On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > > I just don't see how a "free and independent press" doesn't > include people > > who get a bug up their rear and publishing something, with no > regard for > > their livelihood or personal financial gain. What about journalism > > students, who often take chances on writing provocative stuff - > because- they > > have no need to earn a paycheck? To me, this was designed to > apply only to > > the corporate press who have a vested interest in being the only > > organizations allowed to call employees and freelancers > "journalists." > > As David points out, it only matters how this applies in the > courts. A law > > doesn't mean much without legal precedent to give it nuance. > > agreed. > what issue are they traying to solve? > why not just say "anyone can say whatever they want without having > to prove it." > To me, it sounds like Congress is trying to make sure the person has a > history of telling stories which makes them more trustworthy. > > Lets talk about some use cases. > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > Video: http://ryanishungry.com > Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
