The US House of Representatives recently passed a Federal Shield law for journalist. It's doesnt seem to please anyone fully, but it is a start.
The interesting part is how they defined Journalist: In its current form, the law protects only "a person who, for financial gain or livelihood, is engaged in journalism," which involves the "gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting, or publishing of news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public. So this could include bloggers if what you do is regularly cover topics as your livelihood. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
