“In a recent Esquire column, Charles Pierce recalled presidential historian George Reedy’s prediction years ago that so-called ‘shield laws,’ which protect reporters against criminal prosecution for not revealing their sources, would involve de facto government licensing of the press. After all, the law would have to define who qualified as a ‘journalist’ for purposes of such legal protection. And guess what? US Senator Dianne Feinstein just bore him out. She ‘insisted on limiting the legal protection to ‘real reporters’ and not, she said, a 17-year-old with his own website.'”
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