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To: SteveH

Freedom of the Press does not give the press the right to unfettered access to the people they wish to criticize. These people are complete morons who lack common sense and simple reasoning abilities.


5 posted on 06/14/2016 12:35:59 AM PDT by BRL
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To: BRL

Freedom of the press implies an obligation by the press to tell the truth and to be unbiased.


26 posted on 06/14/2016 1:56:35 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: BRL

With today’s journalistic bent towards an op-ed bent rather than shoe leather reporting I’m rather surprisesd this hadn’t happened sooner.

The people have a right to know and to read what is actually happening, and not what is being conjured up as informational propaganda. Political agenda has no place in the first amendment.


59 posted on 06/14/2016 3:38:18 AM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: BRL
As I've posted before...

The First Amendment guarantees the right of a free press TO THE PEOPLE; it does NOT guarantee the right of the New York Times or the Washington Post to exist in perpetuity.

If those "press" outlets fail to provide an honest product, a new press will emerge to replace them. "They" are not protected, the right of a free press is.

-PJ 

79 posted on 06/14/2016 4:39:12 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: BRL

With today’s journalistic bent towards an op-ed bent rather than shoe leather reporting I’m rather surprisesd this hadn’t happened sooner.

The people have a right to know and to read what is actually happening, and not what is being conjured up as informational propaganda. Political agenda has no place in the first amendment.


111 posted on 06/14/2016 5:07:50 PM PDT by Clutch Martin
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