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To: SkyDancer

>>So, CNN is totally ignoring the Constitution. Well I guess since they figure they’re not the government and can do what they want outside the law and Constitution. <<

I am usually the first to remind people the USC applies to the government and not to private corporations.

But the media CONSTANTLY holds itself out as quasi-government and specifically wraps itself in the 1st Amendment when attacked for inventing news stories out of whole cloth.

Thus it must be held to the same standard as government. It cannot violate the constitutional rights of the people and that includes THEIR 1st Amendment rights (as well as the others).


31 posted on 07/07/2017 2:17:48 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: freedumb2003
I am usually the first to remind people the USC applies to the government and not to private corporations.

But the media CONSTANTLY holds itself out as quasi-government and specifically wraps itself in the 1st Amendment when attacked for inventing news stories out of whole cloth.

Thus it must be held to the same standard as government. It cannot violate the constitutional rights of the people and that includes THEIR 1st Amendment rights (as well as the others).

If an organization controlled the water supply, it would be a government. If it controlled the land, it would be a government. If it controlled the food, it would be a government.

These media people in New York control information. It is the lifeblood of a functional Republic, and they have been tainting it for political gain.

The effective monopoly they posses needs to be broken.

53 posted on 07/07/2017 2:28:11 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: freedumb2003

Agree - I was pointing out to CNN (if they read this stuff) that they’re not the government. They do not have the right to the invasion of privacy under the guise of “the people have a right to know” like where did they dig that one up?


82 posted on 07/07/2017 3:45:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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