Via Daily Kos:
By a 14-5 vote yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved S. 448, Free Flow of Information Act of 2009, and has sent it on to the full Senate for consideration. The bill, introduced by Senators Specter, Schumer, Graham and Klobuchar in Committee, for the first time extends [...]
Public Affairs' Jeff Berkowitz did us all a public service again yesterday by asking Governor Quinn a tough question about the ethics reform legislation he signed on the one year anniversary of former Governor Blagojevich's early morning arrest -- something Quinn rarely gets from other Chicago journalists. Jeff writes:
This reporter asked Governor Quinn [...]
From the Washington Examiner: "Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Diane Feinstein, D-Cal., offered an amendment to a new press shield law that provides legal protections only to professional journalists employed by established mainstream media -- a blatant attempt to curb independent, often blog-based reporting like" [...]
WASHINGTON--What! Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, palin' around with a group of elite journalists? She was, the Gridiron Club winter dinner, where she took shots at herself and the journos in the audience.
I'm taking a quick break from the dinner to file this, so I'm not ready to' [...]
WASHINGTON--Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) are keynoting the Gridiron Club Winter dinner tonight. Palin is here with husband Todd. Palin and Frank will be speaking later at this dinner sponsored by the journalists group.
At the reception before the dinner, Palin told me she will [...]
If Sen Schumer and Arlen Specter can make efforts to protect little guy bloggers like myself, why can't you? Via dKos:
The legislation originally had a broad definition of "journalist", but that was curtailed thanks to the efforts of two then-unnamed Democratic senators:
For citizen journalists, the federal shield [...]
Illinois Policy Institute rolled out a website called www.IllinoisOpenGov.org that should provide some interesting material for investigative citizen journalists in the coming days. Just for fun, we went into the "payroll" section of the new online data base and entered the name "Smith" and pulled up all the "Smiths" getting [...]
