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It IS time for a national shield law. But the big question is whether the public would support such a law.
According to Society of Professional Journalists' President Irwin Gratz, public citizens "are the ones who are served by a free flow of information and they will feel the chill if sources become less willing to speak and journalists afraid to listen."
Does the public realize the important role journalists play in the free flow of information? I'm afraid the public perception of journalism has been too tainted by sensationalism in recent years, and the case for a national shield law will be a battle that journalists ultimately lose.
One problem is, Miller has been such a shill for the administration that her jailing is evoking very little outcry outside of journalism circles. If she's our poster child, I can't imagine the public supporting a national shield law.
Are bloggers journalists? Not in the sense of do they write in inverted pyramid, but do they follow basic principles of traditional print journalism? Use of sources, research, attribution, etc.
Because if bloggers are going to come from other backgrounds and disciplines than journalism, (such as creative or fiction writing perhaps...)and if news is going online...what are journalism teachers going to teach?
"News is what somebody somewhere doesn't want you to know. All the rest is advertising." Dan Rather quoted in Esquire
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