Sen. Feinstein: 'Real' Journalists Draw Salaries

&gt; The bill&#x27;s definition of &quot;journalist&quot; seems straightforward enough.... <i>&quot;primary intent to investigate events and procure material&quot;</i><p>well.. shoot... that whole <i>investigate</i> part sort of makes a lot of those so called &quot;real&quot; <i>paid</i> journalists not journalists after all. The fact that some people specifically use the term <i>investigative journalism</i> leads me to believe many don&#x27;t do this. So they won&#x27;t get protection now, right? :)

Too many snide jokes to be made about &quot;Real&quot; Senators. Must resist...

Thankfully, it&#x27;s not up to her to decide. She&#x27;s pretty much never had a real job, working in government since the 60s.

I wish senators had karma. Sometimes one of them &quot;posts&quot; something that makes me really just want to reach for the down arrow.<p><i>Feinstein suggested that the definition comprise only journalists who make salaries, saying it should be applied just to &quot;real reporters.&quot;</i><p>In a debate about journalists, that was clueless, offtopic, and unhelpful.

Real senators keep and serve the society&#x27;s justice.

Excellent criteria. This should be a trivial one to game. Just created an LLC that pays a token salary to everyone that practices journalist in more novel forms like blogging.<p>If Steve Jobs can draw a $1 per year salary, so can journalists.

Hey, everyone in California, I have an idea: let&#x27;s vote Feinstein out.

And many of them not for much longer, given the general state of the industry. And are out of work journalists not allowed to work on stuff to try and get more work?

Sen. Feinstein makes douchey, inflammatory remark. News at 11.