{"id":42679,"date":"2014-03-27T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42679"},"modified":"2014-03-27T06:07:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T11:07:59","slug":"kill-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42679","title":{"rendered":"Kill The Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2014\/03\/26\/Exclusive-Cornyn-Rips-Schumer-s-Media-Shield-Law\">John Cornyn is right<\/a>; Chuckles Schumer&#8217;s proposed &#8220;Media Shield&#8221; law creates two medias &#8211; a government-sanctioned media (which will, by necessity, have to dever to government to retain its favored status), and the rest of us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is a bad idea and one whose time has not come,\u201d Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate minority whip, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. \u201cBelieve me, we will not be rolled over.\u201d&#8230;Schumer&#8217;s proposal would exempt a \u201ccovered journalist\u201d from subpoenas and other legal requirements to expose their confidential sources in leak investigations and other areas. Other lawmakers have proposed similar ideas in the past, but the effort gained new momentum after a series of revelations about controversial tactics the Justice Department was using to target journalists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only one who notes the irony &#8211; liberals like the media and Diane Feinstein are fine with the rabble being spied on &#8211; but they value <em>their <\/em>privacy.<\/p>\n<p>(If we had a media that was a genuine antagonist and check on government, it&#8217;s still be a stupid but forgiveable bill.\u00a0 But we don&#8217;t, and we haven&#8217;t in decades).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This bill needs to die and be buried in a forgotten unmarked grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cornyn is right; Chuckles Schumer&#8217;s proposed &#8220;Media Shield&#8221; law creates two medias &#8211; a government-sanctioned media (which will, by necessity, have to dever to government to retain its favored status), and the rest of us: \u201cThis is a bad idea and one whose time has not come,\u201d Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,30,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-amendment","category-liberty","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42683,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679\/revisions\/42683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}