Stello's Choice

• EFF posts a good update on the ACTA.
• Reporters want copyright law to repay them for costly news gathering.
• Obama Admin. wants to keep things in the dark.
• Chicago Police want to keep disciplinary records under wraps.
• Washington Post will close its last remaining US national newsrooms.
• ABA endorses the Federal Shield Law, so does Obama.

RCFP says:

Under the revised version of the law, a journalist will not be required to be a salaried employee of a media company, but rather a person gathering news for the purpose of disseminating the information to the public, which could include unpaid online journalists. A person who is reasonably believed to be claiming the privilege to cover a crime of terrorism or aiding a terrorist organization will be excluded from the definition.

Why am I thankful this year?  Because if we lived in Azerbaijan, we could be charged with hooliganism.

Or better yet, if we were Iraqi we could be beaten by the government.