While I agree with the necessity for a free press in any society, there needs to be some kind of self-policing by the profession to keep obvious scumbags (plenty of them to go around in journalism) from publishing any garbage they choose to run their "other" mouth about.  There is too much "peeping tom" stuff, too much blatant character assasination and too much opinion being masqueraded as fact.  While you folks demand total freedom to publish any kind of trash you choose, you reject any control as censorship and unconstitutional.  With freedom comes responsibility.  How are you going to insure that, Brett?  There needs to be limits to the shield law.  Maybe your profession should be the ones to lay down the law.  Where are you going to draw the lines? Are you going to protect journalists from irresponsible activity just like the Catholic Church or the Honolulu Police have done?