"REPUBLICANS MUST KILL THIS BILL": Trump orders GOP to snuff out press freedom bill | Salon.com
By: Alex Galbraith (Salon)
the US Constitution is biased against maga autocrats ...
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Donald Trump is asking Republicans in the Senate to squash a bill that would protect journalists from being forced to reveal their sources.
The Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act would make a current Department of Justice rule barring prosecutors from compelling the release of journalists' sources into federal law. The bill passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives with unanimous support in January. Currently held up in the Senate, the bill came to Trump's attention after a segment on the act aired on "PBS NewsHour."
He shared that clip along with an all-caps order on Truth Social Wednesday.
"REPUBLICANS MUST KILL THIS BILL!" he wrote.
Railing against the freedom of the press is nothing new for Trump. He spent a significant chunk of his time on the campaign trail, griping about perceived unfair coverage from media outlets and threatening the press.
The president-elect filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS last month, taking issue with the way that the network edited portions of a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris. In the lead-up to that litigation, Trump called for the network's broadcast license to be revoked.
"CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS - and maybe even WORSE!" he wrote on Truth Social in October.
Elsewhere, he called journalists the "enemy of the people" and gleefully imagined someone shooting through the press area of his campaign rally to get to him.
"All we really have over here is the fake news, right? And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news," Trump said. "And I don't mind that so much."
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of course lying by the alt-right media outlets will continue to be acceptable ...
And so it begins....
that darn 1st amendment just doesn't support the project 2025 maga agenda ...
No, it doesn't
The ability to protect sources allows for much better reporting on issues where whistle blowers are fearful of reprisals.
This bill should be passed
The first move by the worlds dictators are now part of the US political world.
How fricking sad.
the maga autocrat may be temporarily untouchable, but his dumb ass supporters aren't ...
American can expect a wholesale assault on their 1st Amendment rights by the incoming regime.
They're already trying to dismantle the press. After that it's speech and then we will all be subject to a perverted version of Christianity. Do you think they can force somebody to pray?
i have
All the appropriate rights will be still be there:
Thanks for boiling that down. It sound about right
Wonder which paper will be the national paper? My bet is the NY Post
pravda ...
I think that if a "confidential source" provides certain kinds of information to a journalist that can be verified without needing to reveal the source then that source should be protected. For instance, if a source provided evidence of corruption at a bank, such as documents. If a source gives secret documents to a journalist and the journalist doesn't reveal the source, that journalist should be put in prison until they do. Also, if they publish that information, both the journalist and those in the organization they work who approved the publishing should be put in prison.
If a journalist says a source says something unverifiable, such as saying the source heard so-and-so say something, that information should not be allowed to be in the story without revealing the source. The reason is obvious. A journalist could literally say anything and claim it came from a source. In my opinion, that should be enshrined into law. I am sick to death of so much news based on things that can't be verified and that we're just supposed to trust. I'm sick to death of politicians releasing information that way for which they would be in trouble for releasing and I think such a law would prevent them from being so underhanded and dishonest. Otherwise, they can't be held accountable for what they say.
That's my opinion.
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