A Bigger Brother

This is interesting - how do my fellow broadcast-journalists feel about this?

Homeland Security Given Green Light to Monitor American Journalists

Source: The Blaze – (Tue, Jan 10, 2012) - snippet: Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”