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CBS News supports censoring blogs
Lone Star Times ^ | 12-09-2004 | David_Wildes

Posted on 12/09/2004 10:18:50 PM PST by weegee

When I was linking to CBS News for my Stupefy Me report earlier today (directly below), I came across this gem of a story (FR THREAD ON THE CBS ARTICLE: Blogs: New Medium, Old Politics NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2004). It appears that CBS News not only is striking back at the blogs and bloggers that took out Dan Rather and embarrassed their entire organization, but they are also supporting censorship of us rascally citizens.

Internet blogs are providing a new and unregulated medium for politically motivated attacks. With the same First Amendment protections as newspapers, blogs are increasingly gaining influence.

(snip)

…Case precedent on political speech as it pertains to blogs does not exist. But where journalists' careers may be broken on ethics violations, bloggers are writing in the Wild West of cyberspace. There remains no code of ethics, or even an employer, to enforce any standard.

At minimum, the role of blogs in the Daschle-Thune race is a telling harbinger for 2006 and 2008. Some blogs could become new vehicles for the old political dirty tricks.

Like all media, blogs hold the potential for abuse. Experts point out that blogs' unregulated status makes them particularly attractive outlets for political attack.

(snip)

“[The question is] whether blogs are analogous to a sole person campaigning or whether they are very much a media publication, which is essentially akin to an online newspaper,” said Goldberg, who is the legal counsel to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

(snip)

Beginning next year, the F.E.C. will institute new rules on the restricted uses of the Internet as it relates to political speech.

“I think those questions are going to have to be asked and answered,” said Lillian BeVier, a First Amendment expert at the University of Virginia. “It’s going to be an issue and it should be an issue.”

The whole story is worth a read. It details the impact of blogs on the Daschle-Thune race. Surprisingly, it does not mention the impact of blogs on Dan Rather or our liberal counterparts’ impact on the leaking of exit poll data. There is no word on whether veteran anchors can be used as a vehicles for the old political dirty tricks.


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To: weegee

Ha!,Ha!... CBS...The pajama blogger brigade kicked the crap out of you and you don't like it...So you want to censor free speech?...good luck! You hate it that we showed all those way overpaid exec's are not worth a damn. Does it embarass you?...L.O.L.


41 posted on 12/10/2004 12:12:17 AM PST by Route101
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To: AmericaUnited

CBS doesn't want the monopoly. They just want to see that the DNC has a monopoly on it.


42 posted on 12/10/2004 12:31:17 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: Route101

Exposing their Zogbyism cost them millions AND the election.


43 posted on 12/10/2004 12:31:46 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: weegee

Note to CBS:

In the final analysis, advertising, packaging, and torpedoing the competition aren't going to save your dog food company if the dogs don't like it.


44 posted on 12/10/2004 12:43:18 AM PST by papertyger
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To: MikeinIraq

Yeah right. They can almost regulate blogs. Then you will see hundreds of blogs open up in places beyond the US's borders. I live abroad. I can post whatever I want about the US and nobody can stop me. As long as I don't threaten people nor break the laws of the country I'm living in. CBS can do whatever they like, but they will pay a heavier price than just losing old gasbag Rather.


45 posted on 12/10/2004 12:45:51 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: weegee

Indeed.......I like thst word....Zogbyism...and now for another zogbyism.....


46 posted on 12/10/2004 12:46:58 AM PST by Route101
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To: weegee
"CBS News supports censoring blogs"

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.

I love it when the opposition admits they got their collective butts whipped by rank amateurs. And I love it when they propose such an untenable solution as to censor a medium so inherently anarchical and uncensorable, as the internet.

As President Bush said: Bring it on!

--Boot Hill

47 posted on 12/10/2004 12:48:17 AM PST by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: Judith Anne
What they are really saying is " Beginning next year , the F.E.C. will institute new rules on the restricted uses of Conservative/Republicans on the Internet as it relates to political speech, and religious Christian speech and the Conservative/Republicans will no longer have FREE SPEECH in this country no more, violators will be put in the Soviet Gulag " . MSM has declared until father notice , that there will be a crackdown on any political speech of conservatism/republicanism and Christians, MSM's goal is to have only one communist/democratic party in this country. ( Sarcasm )
48 posted on 12/10/2004 12:57:18 AM PST by Prophet in the Wilderess
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To: sam_paine

My wife wears 'Saran Wrap' over her head for some strange hair treatment. I have found it is unwise to snicker. I just bite my lips and hope the insane urge to smile passes quickly.


49 posted on 12/10/2004 12:58:27 AM PST by carumba
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To: Boot Hill
Of course the favor sensoring blogs...they reveal CBS to be a biased, lying organization and cut in on their business.
50 posted on 12/10/2004 12:58:29 AM PST by Señor Zorro
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To: Enterprise

Oh sure, Enterprise, take the easy way out.
I wanted the see the picture of the other spelling!



;-)


51 posted on 12/10/2004 1:01:11 AM PST by konaice
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To: weegee
I guess also in their liberal minds, that they will somehow " REGULATE OUR TV NEWS WATCHING " and force feed us their slime. opps, they were doing that for the last 40 years up until 10 years ago.
I would not put it passed the liberals, trying to regulate that we can't turn off C.B.S A.B.C N.B.C. C.N.N. P.B.S and turn it to another channel in our own homes.
52 posted on 12/10/2004 1:13:26 AM PST by Prophet in the Wilderess
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To: Prophet in the Wilderess

The libs would love it if all media were owned by the state. NPR, PBS, and Voice of America are all decidedly leftist.


53 posted on 12/10/2004 1:20:26 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: weegee

You mean, " Voice of U.S.S.A "


54 posted on 12/10/2004 1:27:55 AM PST by Prophet in the Wilderess
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To: lonewacko_dot_com
However, if the guy was a consultant he should have had a notice on his blog to that effect.

Does this mean that every time I write a letter to the editor, I must insist that they publish that I was a Republican Party volunteer along with the text of my letter?

A blog is a personal statement. That is something so deeply covered by court decisions to be beyond any attempt by congress or any court to regulate. People choose to read these personal statements and may or may not decide to make a response. The courts long ago decided that someone is not a member of the press unless they present themselves as being so. The southdakotapolitics-blog isn't represented as a press publication, but a personal sharing of opinion.

CBS is barking up the wrong tree here; more power to them. Every stupid step by them makes us stronger.
55 posted on 12/10/2004 1:42:15 AM PST by kingu (Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?)
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To: MikeinIraq; weegee

You've got to ask
yourself one question:
"Do I Feel Lucky ??"
Well do you, punk ?!


56 posted on 12/10/2004 2:27:34 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP! ©)
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To: weegee; PhilDragoo; Liz; onyx; Happy2BMe; potlatch; devolve; MEG33; Grampa Dave; Lady Jag; ...


57 posted on 12/10/2004 2:29:05 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP! ©)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Here is my EXACT post from the CBS story yesterday:

To: gov_bean_ counter
But where journalists' careers may be broken on ethics violations, bloggers are writing in the Wild West of cyberspace. There remains no code of ethics, or even an employer, to enforce any standard.

HAHAHAHA......oh my sides hurt from laughing!

CBS got burned and, if you ask me, they're going after the internet now.

13 posted on 12/09/2004 6:32:46 PM EST by Howlin (W, Still the President)
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Blogs: New Medium, Old Politics

I'm so tired of people reading FR and then using it on their own blogs.

58 posted on 12/10/2004 2:32:33 AM PST by Howlin (W, Still the President)
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To: weegee

Sooooooooooo does this mean CBS is going to go after MSNBC ... they have Blogs .. several of them in fact


59 posted on 12/10/2004 2:36:39 AM PST by Mo1 (Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
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To: Judith Anne
What does this mean?

It means they're really PO'd about getting their butts handed to them by the people, so the people must go.

60 posted on 12/10/2004 2:38:03 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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