Conyers Backs Journalists, Slams Media

CONYERS BACKS JOURNALISTS, SLAMS MEDIA
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on the proposed federal shield law Thursday. The law would protect journalists' sources, including those of bloggers, in federal investigations, with some carve-outs for national security, trade secrets or personal health information, but a just would have to determine that seeking those sources trumped the public's interest in protecting them. Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) supports the bill, but in his opening remarks Thursday suggested that reporters needed protection not only from federal investigators but from their own corporate parents.
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