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Journalists are different from you and me. They have protected constitutional status and a duty, a duty mind you, to stay aloof and above the petty concerns of mortals.

They are different from you, they are better than me. We are lucky they deign to soil their hands with the task of telling us what to think. We should be grateful and shut up.

We should take a second look at their protected Constitutional status. They are not doing their duty to report facts without bias; rather, they are using that protection to become an unelected 'branch' of government.

I worked in a television newsroom for years and found the photographers to be the best journalists. They essentially let the sound and pictures tell the story. It was only when some producer or editor got his or her hands on the report that it would turn from truth to something else entirely.

Good post, Mad Dawg.

I used to be a clergydude. And I see the loss of parts of the privileges of confidentiality arising from the abuse of them by clergy. Similarly, the REAL, enduring price of journalists abuse of their protected status will be the loss of that protection. With the breaches of security that have led to the fuss about the interception/tapping of some phone calls the press went too far. They will lose the right to do their job well because they have done it so poorly for so long.

(Thanks for nice words.)

Check out this cowardly weasel "Crowell" who is making the rounds on TV now.

Ex-Klintonista CIA leftie.

He says "The US Constitution created the '4th Estate' - 'The Press' to keep a balancing check on the Administration, Congress, and the Judiciary".

What a crock!

Crowell is claiming the media is immune and above any laws that even hold the President subject to federal statutes.

Crowell is asserting that journalists are some kind of "holier than thou philosopher-*queens" *(75% at the NYT) - the self-annointed czars of filtering and censoring in their daily "budget meetings" (FR newsies can explain these) what the peons out there are to read/hear/see as "their truth".

By Crowell's logic I can use the 2nd Amendment to "monitor and control" the media - yet remain aloof and immune from any responsibilities or repercussions whatsoever.

Who does Crowell now work for?

The MSM.......

The brave "Muslims just say Boo and I'll shut up" media!

The European media - mostly lefties - is laughing at the 99.999% liberal American press now.

Any liberal journalists can register at FR and refute this - But caution - I will then name the names of those in the press and how and where and when I got my information.

That should really enhance your resumes and careers.

Maybe I'll start with a quiet dinner in a Manhattan apartment with a number of NYT employees -