MENENDEZ INTRODUCES ACT TO FIGHT INTIMIDATION OF JOURNALISTS A MONTH AFTER THREATENING REPORTER – IOTW Report

MENENDEZ INTRODUCES ACT TO FIGHT INTIMIDATION OF JOURNALISTS A MONTH AFTER THREATENING REPORTER

DC: Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is one of a three Democrats who reintroduced an act to protect journalists on Tuesday, despite having threatened to call the police on a reporter last month.

Menendez joined Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal in reintroducing the Journalist Protection Act, which was originally introduced in February 2018.

“The Journalist Protection Act makes it a federal crime to intentionally cause bodily injury to a journalist affecting interstate or foreign commerce in the course of reporting or in a manner designed to intimidate him or her from newsgathering for a media organization,” a press release about the act read.  more here

 

8 Comments on MENENDEZ INTRODUCES ACT TO FIGHT INTIMIDATION OF JOURNALISTS A MONTH AFTER THREATENING REPORTER

  1. Menendez, Swalwell, Blumenthal, those 3 co-sponsoring or re-introducing this bill should tell you all you need to know about it. We really have some no good POS in government.

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