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Posted on 08/17/2014 11:10:47 AM PDT by lbryce
President Barack Obama is no friend of press freedom, says a New York Times reporter who may be sent to jail for refusing to reveal a source.
“A lot of people still think this is some kind of game or signal or spin,” reporter James Risen told his own paper in a profile about his plight published Saturday. “They don’t want to believe that Obama wants to crack down on the press and whistle-blowers. But he does. He’s the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.”
Risen’s troubles stem from the 2006 publication of his book “State of War,” which included classified information about a failed CIA plot against Iran’s nuclear program. In 2008, George W. Bush’s Department of Justice subpoenaed Risen to reveal the source of the classified information. Citing his role as a journalist, Risen refused to comply, fighting the subpoena until it expired in 2009.
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Can’t be. We all know “liberals” and “progressives” are all about freedom and rights.
If reporters would just do their damned jobs with some vigor and some integrity, that would go a long way to protecting press freedom.
They're catching on.
Most reporters have worn out 2 or 3 sets of kneepads since Obama took office.
How much support is this man getting from the rest of the people in the press?
Very little I would assume since it would require most of them removing their heads from Obozo’s rectum in order to be heard.
How is Obama a threat to the freedom of the press?
They surrendered it years before he became president, and they did it so he could become president.
They had been practicing for decades, with it reaching a crescendo under Clinton.
The MSM we have right now hasn’t done their job in over twenty years. They pride themselves in taking down Nixon, and have allowed full on traitors a free ride since.
Maybe the day will come the whole MSM will be screaming like this guy. I aint holding my breath, mind you.
But if so theyve got noone to blame but themselves.
They had the power to expose the fegov lies but chose to play
along in the malfeasance. They will also share in the reaping.
Incredible!!! The NY Times conceding its position as the greatest enemy to Press Freedom to Traitorobama?!?
Maybe if they did their jobs back in 2008, this wouldn’t be a problem.
Get in bed with the devil, and expect to get screwed. The MSM will find out too late who will be lined up first in front of the firing squad first by a tyrannical regime. The useful idiots are the last to realize that they have been played, but realize too late to do anything about it.
No. The press itself is one of the greatest enemies of all freedoms. Obama just wants them to keep on doing what they've been doing since he arrived on the scene.
How about that the Cheer leaders for the Obama Presidency are complaining that their pal is diminishing press freedoms.Hey!You get what you paid for.
If the NYT grows disillusioned with The Won, then he is on a shorter leash than even LBJ in 1968, when he lost Walter Cronkite.
“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”
A lot of us are worried about a whole lot more about other freedoms were loosing than the press.
The press in this country hasn’t been on the job for quite a while, so it’s not like we’re loosing something that has been informing the country or keeping a critical eye on him.
I expect, like this guy, they will only get upset if its they who are personally getting screwed over. If its somebody else getting screwed then its just a price worth paying for the cause of liberalism (stalinism).
"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example of concession, betraying the common right of independent opinion . . . ." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1803.
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.
There is a truly principled argument to be made for the Founders' Constitution's protection of free speech and freedom of the press.
When one dimension of liberty is threatened, then all are at risk, and the blatant example of unconstitutional use of government power to "manage," or "control" dissent deserves a more competent argument than is currently being provided.
It's time for a long overdue history and civics lesson, especially for the youth of America!
Tell them about why Thomas Jefferson, who was criticized by the press of his day, was so outspoken on the idea of a free press! Bet they've never heard it in school.
Claim a larger battleground--a battle of ideas. Contrast those founding ideas with those of dictatorships and totalitarian governments which have oppressed their citizens and controlled the marketplace of ideas by restricting the press!
Stop playing in the Administration's playpen. Force it onto an unfamiliar battleground where the ideas of liberty are presented versus the ideas of tyranny. Contrast the 200-year history of America with that of every totalitarian regime, and future generations may be able to mark this point in our history as a turning point for reclaiming freedom.
"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."(Underlining added for emphasis) --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
BS. The problem has been so called “journalists”
who did not even vet the Indonesian Moslem impostor
and then LIED, LIED, LIED, LIED, LIED, and LIED.
Obama is the most dangerous enemy to everything decent in America in our history. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the press, considering that their malfeasance inflicted this fraud on our country, but we do need a fair and honest press. I hope journalists will realize that honesty matters if we survive these final two terrible years under the communist usurper.
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