[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I favor individual versus group responsibility in reporting truth, just the same way attorneys are individually responsible and bound by a professional canons of ethics.

The First Amendment favors individual responsibility to identify the truth even if someone is lying to you. Even, indeed, if most people are lying to you. Which is what we get when CBS lies about the so-called "Texas Air National Guard Memos" - and all the rest of "objective" journalism played dumb instead of savaging 60 Minutes for running with the fraudulent "memos."

People who assume that anyone is objective because they say they are objective are suckers.

[Candor7]

Quote yours:
1) The First Amendment favors individual responsibility to identify the truth even if someone is lying to you. Even, indeed, if most people are lying to you. Which is what we get when CBS lies about the so-called "Texas Air National Guard Memos" - and all the rest of "objective" journalism played dumb instead of savaging 60 Minutes for running with the fraudulent "memos."

Exactly my point: That is why reporters need to be educationally qualified by a State Board Program, just like other professionals are. And they need to have a canon of ethics, and they need to be licensed, with a review board for professional misconduct.This simply codifies 1st amendment responsibility as a quit pro quo for 1st amendment protection.


Quote yours 2) People who assume that anyone is objective because they say they are objective are suckers.

This is a self evident truth, yet other professionals who are licensed in our society, such as attorneys, police officers, real estate agents,and many others,are required professionally to
base what facts THEY use on corroborated truth. If a reasonably professional effort is made at corroboration, responsibility to find the truth is fulfilled.

That is why we freepers need to lobby for this type of statutory regime, because a democratic republic cannot continue to exist when the public masses are misinformed because of spin, propaganda and disinformation, on issues which influence voting patterns toward a socially engineered society, that we are currently experiencing from a misapplied left wing culture and judiciary. MAKE THE REPORTERS STAUTORILY AND PROFESSIONALLY RESPONSIBLE AS QUALIFIED LISCENCED INDIVIDUALS TO MAKE SURE THAT 1st AMENDMENT RESPONSIBILILITY IS DISCHARGED OR THEY LOSE THEIR LISCENCE OR ARE SUSPENDABLE. USE THE LAW THE WAY DIMS ARE MISUSING IT RIGHT NOW IN THE EARLE AND DELAY CASES.