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1. backen+a5[view] [source] 2023-08-12 02:20:07
>>_delir+(OP)
Am I missing something? There's no [federal] shield law protecting journalists in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_laws_in_the_United_Stat...

"There is no federal shield law and state shield laws vary in scope."

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1241/shield-law...

"There is no federal shield law"

Not even former or sitting presidents are protected.

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2. comte7+s5[view] [source] 2023-08-12 02:23:10
>>backen+a5
Did you read the article?
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3. LegitS+V5[view] [source] 2023-08-12 02:27:41
>>comte7+s5
What if the article is wrong?
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4. comte7+ke[view] [source] 2023-08-12 03:58:39
>>LegitS+V5
That’s an interesting hypothetical. Wrong about what exactly?

The thing is the article didn’t say anything about shield laws, which is what the comment I was responding to was talking about.

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5. LegitS+fJ1[view] [source] 2023-08-12 18:02:03
>>comte7+ke
the article offers a legal opinion that isn't a fact, just an opinion. Even between lawyers there will be differences of opinion on legal cases. Journalists and their opinions don't even enter the game here.

This isn't a case study, or an example from a textbook, its an ongoing situation. Conclusively saying that the raid was illegal isn't a fact, its just an opinion, and not even a credited one - it reads like the journalist's opinion.

So its one thing to report on a police raid, its another thing to offer a legal opinion and present it as fact without conditionals, or whose opinion it is.

What if they're wrong?

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