Posted on 04/24/2013 12:39:43 PM PDT by IndePundit
But what if the reporter is a big fat liar? Or “made up” the confidential source?
But, we know all reporters are honest as a new rose in Springtime..../s
No.
Concur
Given how vital is the freedom of the press in a democracy
Stopped reading right there. These people need to go back to school and learn what type of government we have.
What they need is a fairness law...if they are going to lie cheat to get democrats elected then they don’t need or deserve any protection!!!
No problem. I don’t know how I feel about these laws, but I have a problem with judges having to figure out if they need to follow the law. That leads to unfair enforcement where some people are protected by the law and some aren’t.
Journalism is, was, and will be politics. Which was OK, until journalism became a single entity - until, that is, the major newspapers became associated. Read, until they became members of the Associated Press. Adam Smith predicted the result:People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)After a century and a half and more of continual virtual “meeting” among its membership, the Associated Press is little elsebut" a conspiracy against the public." A conspiracy, that is, to inflate the reputations of journalists by slandering everyone else upon whom the people do and must depend.
The fact that journalists don’t have to associate with a particular political party does not prevent a political party from associating with journalism - which is what Democrats do, and why Democrats get such positive labeling and such affirmative PR, and why their opponents get such negative labeling and PR.Journalists do not consider themselves mere citizens; they call themselves “members of the Fourth Estate” - the other three “Estates” being priestly or mobility based. Such being the case, my enthusiasm for the granting of special protections for journalists is, shall we say, limited.
Reporters need to go and apply to the state they will be practicing in for the right to play reporter.
Why should they be able to report “news”without it being certified by the government that it is based on fact.
Also future reporters will be required to pay the state a fee to register each Computer they utilize for word processing and News collation purposes.
Whats good for the 2nd Amendment is just as good as the first./Sarcasm everyone
How do we define journalist?
I wonder if Jana Winter’s law enforcement source is at the Phoenix field office of the FBI? She’s involved in a case related to that office. And another proponent of a media shield law a/k/a licence to lie that would allow the government the power to define who is and who is not a privileged reporter is, or rather was, Senator John McCain.
I wonder if “Deep Throat” describes her source or her investigative technique?
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