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The FAA’s Latest Drone Problem: Some Are Jumping the Gun

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A few examples: A part-time journalist was suspended from his job at a TV station in Hartford, Connecticut, earlier this month, after he flew a UAV around the scene of an accident. “There’s a first amendment issue on the federal level as to what is the definition of a journalist,” he told Mashable.

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The Civil Servant at the Top

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Think of former Connecticut senator Chris Dodd, now head of the Motion Picture Association of America ; general Wesley Clark, co-chair of Growth Energy , an ethanol industry trade group; or former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint, now head of the Heritage Foundation. There have been numerous examples of this in the past five years.