[Drango]

Yeah, I don't understand these so called "journalist" or the game they are playing. At several FReeps in SF, they come up to you, ask an absurd, loaded question and then when you ask for a press pass they get indignant. Some of 'em are wearing a bright orange "NO WAR" press badge which gives they uddles of credibility in my book...

I just ignore "journalist" now unless they can produce a legitimate "press pass" and even then thy don't report what you say.

[Doctor Raoul]

Yeah, I don't understand these so called "journalist" or the game they are playing. At several FReeps in SF, they come up to you, ask an absurd, loaded question and then when you ask for a press pass they get indignant. Some of 'em are wearing a bright orange "NO WAR" press badge which gives they uddles of credibility in my book...

It's simple, they're fascists.

And I'm not kidding. Usually, they have their own media folks that they like to call "Independent Media", or Independent Something or Other. What they are there to do is document the event for the left. Now here's the fascist part about them. Every definition of fascism includes the element that defines a fascist state, it's that only one view, that of the organization is allowed. When you ask for that press card, you're questioning their authority to be the organization's single voice. The other elemnet of fascism that goes with only the organization's view being heard is that all other views are ruthlessly and do mean ruthlessly silenced.

Look up fascism in any dictionary but the Official Workers World Party dictionary and you'll see that's consistantly part of the definition.