I take it “journalists” are licensed by the government?
Some journalists are more equal than others...
apparently ya gotta be on the dole for $$$; letters after yer name, etc...
Semper BS! *****
I think it depend a lot on whether the blog was really being used to report news or information about any topic or whether it was being used as an online billbord to spouts lies and rants. A guick glance an the last month’s posts would be sufficient to tell the difference.
Presumably then, neither were the pamphleteers of the early republic... unfortunately the news comes more than 200 years too late to help the likes of Adams, Madison or Jefferson.
Reporters get their credentials from the media they work for. There is no government “journalist” license. Anyone I think can start up a news blog and report things or lie or do whatever. The media lies to us all the time. What determines a journalist? Being employed by some media outlet? Look at those supermarket tabloids. You think they’re telling the truth? “Alien Robot Found In Obama’s Bathroom In The White House” - since I wrote it, it’s not factual but if the Washington Post wrote it, it would be.
Bloggers, big and small, are the pamphleteers, town criers, the Tom Paines, etc.—the media of today!
Voting, telephoning your congress-crittur, demonstrating is all fine as far as it goes—not far—but blogging is what our pseudo-reps in the district of criminals, and elsewhere, HEAR and FEAR!!!!!
Now is the time for all reaL Americans (Not AINOs) to go online, get a free blog, and start blogging daily!
Why do you think “they” are doing their damndest to get rid of us, and the entire internet for that matter—the I’Net is practically all that is left of that “gd piece of paper,” as one noted politician put it, and our Bill Of Rights, as well.
Get Blogging while ya still can!
Semper Blogging!
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Another fear tactic to shut us up. Say anything about anyone and they’ll get you for libel or slander, or anything they want! A lawyer’s heyday!
Another fear tactic to shut us up. Say anything about anyone and they’ll get you for libel or slander, or anything they want! A lawyer’s heyday!
The “judge” is a Marxist Zerobot...
Hernandez, Marco Antonio Born 1957 in Nogales, AZ
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, District of Oregon
Nominated by Barack Obama on January 5, 2011, to a seat vacated by Garr M. King; Confirmed by the Senate on February 7, 2011, and received commission on February 9, 2011.
Education:
Western Oregon State College, B.A., 1983
University of Washington School of Law, J.D., 1986
Professional Career:
Staff attorney, Oregon Legal Services, Hillsboro, Oregon, 1986-1989
Deputy district attorney, Washington County, Oregon, 1989-1994
Washington County Courts, State of Oregon, district court judge, 1995-1998, circuit court judge, 1998-2011, presiding circuit court judge, 2002-2005