Media Shield

Justice Department Launches Web Site to Attack “Media Shield” Bill

The Justice Department has set up a web page at this link http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/media-shield.htm

were “the Bush administration has outlined its concerns with proposed media shield legislation. This page provides letters, testimony, public statements and views from officials throughout the government expressing their concerns with the proposed media shield legislation.” This was quoted from the Department of Justice’s web page.

Problem: This is a taxpayer funded Department of Justice web page that the Bush administration is using to quash S.2035, the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007, aka, the Media Shield Law.

A quote from the Society for Professional Journalists http://www.spj.org/

"A federal shield law has become essential now that prosecutors appear less constrained about hauling journalists before courts and grand juries," said SPJ President Irwin Gratz, a radio news anchor with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. "Courts are proving little help either, setting aside the partial protections recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in its Branzburg v. Hayes ruling."

Leahy, Specter Urge Senate Action On Media Shield Bill http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200803/030608e.html

To contact the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs / 202-514-2007

The 1st Amendment is under attack by the Bush Administration!! The Justice Department has set up a web page at this link http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/media-shield.htm ... more

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