tooo funny...
Posted on 09/09/2005 5:04:35 PM PDT by RTINSC
Anderson Cooper announced on CNN that a restraining order (1st Amendment) has been issued allowing reporters to meddle in the search for dead bodies.
tooo funny...
I agree with you that it should not be broadcast live. I hope that CNN does, too. I know the Fox talking head this morning seemed to agree that the media should not accompany the recovery crews. But, if CNN, et al, go, Fox will not have a choice, in business terms.
When the media wanted to see Dale Earnhardt's autopsy photos- the FL legislature got busy.
Should we expect something similar from the Louisiana legislature ?
Mar 2001 Florida passes a law forbidding unauthorized disclosure of autopsy photos, as a direct result of the Earnhardt accident. The law is retroactive.
1 Dec 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the University of Florida newspaper Independent Florida Alligator's appeal demanding the right to view and publish autopsy photos.
That statement (the right to bear arms) does not mean you can own a gun, any more that freedom of the press, means a newspaper can print a photograph.
Yeah, the more I learn about this area, the more I think they need an external body monitoring their every move. That and rumors of coverups after Andrew. The more open and honest everything is, the faster it is put to rest.
Your stance is obvious. I will make a further attempt. At the time, "arms" were considered firearms. Devices that would expel a projectile from the force of a rapidly expanding compound (black powder). A gun is an arm. A pistol is an arm. A rifle is an arm. A thermonuclear device did not get defined (since there were none at that time).
Newspapers did exist at the time. They consisted of words and drawings. Normally printed with Indigo ink on paper. I assert that photographs and video are as much a part of the first amendment, as thermonuclear devices are a part of the second amendment.
Perhaps because liberalism has become the prime defender of the culture of death. Recall Barney Frank's quip: A conservative is someone who respects life from conception to birth. Well, a liberal is someone who hates life from conception to grave (death tax, anyone?), and seeks to perpetuate poverty, racial animosity, big government dependency, compulsory political correctness and socialist education masquerading as critical thinking/questioning authority, etc... and on and on and on until all bases of the culture war are covered. Misery, murder, mayhem, madness -- the forte of the mainscream media!
I heard about this video last night. Thanks for posting the link. I'm speechless right now. I don't care if she had a gun or not... he didn't need to tackle her like that. This is a frail woman and she wasn't holding the gun the right way if she was intending to harm someone (if the revolver could even shoot - looked rather old).
My greatest hope is that the family members of one of these "CNN fiends" photos sues the he$$ out of CNN for showing a picture of their departed loved one on air without a release!
I'm not sure where you are headed with this.
You either (1) think we have the right to own thermonuclear weapons, or (2) think television is not covered by the 1st Amendment.
It's nice to know the MSM/Dems protected the sensitivities of the folks living in countries who danced in the streets when Americans were forced to jump out of buildings. They put the lid on it.
Now they happily use the bodies of the dead as a way to gin up hatred of our President. Some of the dead shown on TV will also be seen by their family members for the first time. But the MSM has no shame when it comes to hurting Bush. Or thinking they might be hurting Bush.
If a grieving family gets in the way, well, F'em. They have no shame.
" Anderson Cooper....I must be cool because I two last names.
Anderson's mother wrote a book about her experience losing her son- " A Mother's Story."
His insensitivity to other mothers is appalling.
" In 1988, Gloria Vanderbilt's 23-year-old son Carter Vanderbilt Cooper committed suicide. As Vanderbilt looked on, Carter swung away from the terrace wall of her 14th-floor New York apartment and, in Vanderbilt's words, "He let go."
In this poignant memoir, Vanderbilt reflects on her own painful history and what she describes as "the final loss, the fatal loss that stripped me bare."
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/4258/ links to an article about Cooper.
"... an incident that most shaped Cooper: the suicide of his brother, Carter. Two years Anderson's senior, he leapt from his mother's penthouse in 1988."
Perhaps for swelling the dems voter registration?
Ok...so can I pay someone to take pictures at Anderson Cooper's bathhouse or circle party and distribute them on the Internet? After all, it is my 1st Amendment right.
Note the accent of the LEO.....I think he's from a state that panics around firearms......
Great! I appears that you are considering this situation in a broad perspective. The Federal Communications Commission rulebooks are very thick. The giudelines set forth require that a broadcaster or cablecaster may not discriminate against an individual or a non-violent idealogy. Based upon the first amendment. These rules also prohibit the broadcasting or cablecasting of patently offensive, obscene, or pornographic images and speech.
You have the ability and right to make a snuff film, in the name of free speech. You could (in theory and fact) utilize public airwaves to broadcast that same snuff film. There would likely be some repercussions from you exercising that specific manner of "free speech".
Same as somebody building a thermonuclear weapon. It can be done in theory and fact. There would be repercussions.
"Cite the right to bear arms? Are you joking?
That statement (the right to bear arms) does not mean you can own a gun, any more that freedom of the press, means a newspaper can print a photograph."
Thomas Jefferson and his peers had such great experience with photographs.
That was sarcasm.
They did, however, intimately know about guns and shooting. Owning a musket and a revolver was a necessity, and, a responsiblity.
It still is.
To quote Zappa:
Well you can cool it,
You can heat it...
'cause, baby, i don't need it...
Take your tv tube and eat it
'n all that phony stuff on sports
'n all the unconfirmed reports
You know i watched that rotten box
Until my head began to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They'll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They'll send some joker with a brownie
And you'll see it all complete
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