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GOP Senator Rips Media ‘Shield Law’ to ‘License’ Journalists
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzIn theory, the bill protects journalists from having to reveal confidential sources. Yet the bill only affords this protection to “covered journalists,” while being extremely vague over what that means and giving judges considerable latitude to decide who is or isn’t sufficiently a journalist to have protection under the law.