Posted on 07/06/2005 2:33:03 PM PDT by freepatriot32
Shep Smith ranted and raved about this travesty. He could not believe from the emails he got, the number of people who did not get it.
Freedom of the press!! If the press is not free, we are doomed.
They were free to report Juanita Broaddrick. (She's a liar)
They were free to report on the Swifties. (They are liars)
They were free to follow up on Dan Rather's bogus memos. (Bush is a liar)
They were free to report John Kerry's lies. (We are liars)
If the press did it's job and followed a story instead pressing an agenda...I might be a little sympathetic.
The collective wringing of hands on TV tonight, even on Brit's show, is nauseating.
Hey Press!!!! Welcome to our world!
That's exactly what I think the case is. They simply made it up and she's willing to go to jail because the alternative is to have her fraud exposed and her career ruined.
I love it when stories have a *happy* ending.
She could join Janet Reno, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and the Beast, in the splitting hairs lifestyle.... Whom did I leave out on this scenario?
She's a misguided idiot, and he's a woosie. Hellooo democratic party, here are your persons.
Good point, but strangely, I've always considered that lying, not slanting.
She'll be a star on "The View."
Can't do a book deal on her incarceration in NY.. Called the Son of Sam law...
I thought she was killed during the Desperate Housewives season.
During clinton's escapades with selling our military secrets to the chinese the msm would never mention clinton by name even though he was the main suspect. The closest a msm report would come to mentioning clinton would be, 'the clinton administration.' argh
It is ironic, comic even, for Sulzberger to laud the importance of the free flow of information, and having an informed citizenry, but that lofty goal doesn't extend to telling us peons out here who the sources are.
The Rather Theory
Cooper's source is Rove. Miller's source is somebody else. Rove told Cooper Wilson was recomemded by his wife. Miller got the name from somebody else - probably Wilson or Clarke.
They were free to report on Juanita Broaddrick. (But they chose to ignore her -- her truth conflicted with their delusions)
They were free to report on the Swifties. (The MSM wanted the Swifties to go away so they ignored them - and when that didn't work, they interviewed the Viet Cong to discredit them)
They were free to follow up on Dan Rather's bogus memos. (They didn't want the truth about the memos -- it conflicted with their delusions)
They were free to report John Kerry's lies. (John Kerry's lies are their lies. He has delusions of grandeur, they have delusions of grandeur.)
Is the MSM worthy of the 1st Amendment?
They're not a special class of citizen, but what they do is important for a free society. In this case, they have the option of civil disobedience -- and the privilege of going to jail for their beliefs.
My point exactly. The "liar" comments were my abridged version of their coverage. Not my opinion . Just wanted to make that clear. LOL!
The MSM is no longer the press envisioned by Jefferson. They have inadvertantly sacrificed their integrity for so long, that now when they invoke it, it sounds like a stage aside, a whisper to a disinterested remaining audience, their peers having gone to dine shortly after the intermission. They are in the throes of their relevancy. And now, we are haunted by the reminder that we must all now hang together or we most surely will hang separately.
You're absolutely right. First, there is no right to this in law. Other privileges (priest, doctor) are very narrow and come from British common law. Second, there is a very good argument that journalists have no right to confidential sources at all. If nobody goes on the record, then what are you doing printing it? Third, and most importantly, journalists should not be given a shield because they are no better than the rest of us. I'm a journalist here on FR and I should not be entitled to any special benefits.
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