Who deserves protection under journalism shield laws? Once it was someone who worked for a media organization, or was published by one. Now that the Internet has made everyone a publisher, the lines are blurred, Jeffrey P. Hermes writes: "When considering whether to grant legal protection for the gathering and dissemination of information, the question should not be the person performing those acts, i.e., 'who is a journalist?,' but 'is this an act of journalism?'"
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