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To: punkit
Seems there is a growing cottage industry all over the internet devoted to debunking her latest book, footnote by footnote.
You do realize the stakes, don't you? What if someone walked into the Supreme Court and demanded that broadcast journalism be suppressed as unconstitutional government partisanship? They could plump Slander on the bench and say, "If any one of these charges is unrebutted, the FCC is guilty of malfeasance or nonfeasance in allowing the broadcasting of journalism." And they'd be right!

Broadcast journalism gave us Floriduh 2000, and they should be sued into oblivion because of it!


20 posted on 08/11/2002 10:24:58 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Hopefully someone will go to the SCOTUS with that very argument.

I hope they won't call for banning broadcast journalism or restricting the freedom of the press, as I could not support that.

But, I think there is a valid argument for forcing the media to get rid of half the liberals and replace them with conservatives. That way, there will actually be fair and balanced coverage. As it stands right now, while they are the "press," the FCC has not done its job by letting it become a propaganda machine. In such a case, I don't think "freedom of the press" could be used in defense, at least not if I was the judge.
45 posted on 08/11/2002 12:11:53 PM PDT by rwfromkansas
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