{"id":46888,"date":"2014-09-02T11:09:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46888"},"modified":"2014-10-21T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:33:16","slug":"yet-another-reason-to-loathe-tim-walz-tim-nolan-and-betty-mccollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46888","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Reason To Loathe Tim Walz, Tim Nolan And Betty McCollum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/113\/hr1962\">HR 1962 <\/a>is a proposal for a press shield law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=25707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25707\" title=\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png 320w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beef of the bill says that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In any matter arising under Federal law, a Federal entity may not compel a covered person to provide testimony or produce any document related to information obtained or created by such covered person as part of engaging in journalism, unless a court determines by a preponderance of the evidence, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to such covered person&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;is closely involved in an imminent crime or act of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so far so good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Except that the bill serves only to protect the mainstream media &#8211; the ones that largely kiss Democrat ass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The term covered person means a person who, for financial gain or livelihood, is engaged in journalism and includes a supervisor, employer, parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of such covered person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, institutional media &#8211; and, likely, the institutionally-paid alt-media that have been Walz and Nolan&#8217;s\u00a0BFFs, ermuhgerd, I&#8217;m writing like Sally Jo Sorenson, oh noes &#8211; are covered.<\/p>\n<p>All the rest of us &#8211; the ones that actually try to hold government accountable?\u00a0 We&#8217;re on our own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why do representatives Walz, Nolan and McCollum\u00a0hate freedom of the\u00a0(non-Democrat-aligned) press?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HR 1962 is a proposal for a press shield law.\u00a0 The beef of the bill says that&#8230; In any matter arising under Federal law, a Federal entity may not compel a covered person to provide testimony or produce any document related to information obtained or created by such covered person as part of engaging in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46888","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=46888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46893,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46888\/revisions\/46893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}