Patriotism and the Press

New York Times ^ | 06/28/06 | Editorial Board

[airedale]

You have to read the entire piece. What a crock. IMO anyone who believes that there is any effective wall between the editorial pages and the news pages beyond one made of swiss cheese at the NY Times will be willing to buy a bridge in Brooklyn. Second, if there really is a wall shouldn’t the news side of the house be defending the decision not the editorial page editors who if there is really a wall have nothing to do with the article? Perhaps the public editor should be the one writing the justification or perhaps Pinch himself.

They also don't seem to understand what the decision in the Pentagon Papers actually said. It was a prior restraint case. The court plainly said that prosecution after the fact was an option. The way they brought it up is clearly a veiled threat to the administration by the NY Times.

[Texas_Jarhead]

To hell with them sum bitches!

And you can quote me on that.

[goldstategop]

They're trying to justify treason with the cloak of free speech. The New York Times is lucky America does not have an Official Secrets Act. If it did, it would be shut down today and no one would miss them.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[inkling]

Wow, the Times must really be feeling the heat. Reminds me of Dan Rather a few days after the ANG story aired, protesting his righteousness, wrapping himself in the first amendment, etc. But just like Rather, these chumps are going down. Let's keep the pressure on!!!

[piytar]

Hey NYT: FOAD. You released OPERATIONAL DETAILS of a CLASSIFIED OPERATION. That is EXACTLY the same as releasing information about troop movements. There was no valid First Amendment grounds such as corruption, illegality, etc. You simply released OPERATIONAL DETAILS because you HATE GW Bush. YOU ARE A BUNCH OF TRAITORS WHO SHOULD BE TRIED, CONVICTED, and JAILED. (If this was a declared was, you should by tried, convicted, and SHOT.)

[piytar]

declared was = declared war PIMF

[jazusamo]

They can't deny they did it so they try to justify it. They should be prosecuted to the max for disclosing classified information and let the courts decide.

[wildcatf4f3]

I want them closed, out of business....more pressure for a prosecution may send their already troubled stock spiraling down. They must be eliminated.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"As most of our readers know, there is a large wall between the news and opinion operations of this paper"


This is a desperate attempt to assimilate their readers into a single entity in a bid to retain readers and at the same time use them as human shields.

[SeafoodGumbo]

The Swift story bears no resemblance to security breaches, like disclosure of troop locations, that would clearly compromise the immediate safety of specific individuals.

These f'in scumbags have some f'in nerve. So, what the NYT has done isn't the same as disclosing troop locations because they don't "clearly" put "specific" individuals in danger "immediately"??? They're actually trying to argue that, just because you can't definitively point to the exact individual who is being harmed at this very minute, what they're doing is okay. I'm astounded that even the despicable vermin at the NYT would try to use that argument.

[GeorgeBerryman]

[sure_fine]

"There have been a handful of times in American history when the government has indeed tried to prosecute journalists for publishing things it preferred to keep quiet. None of them turned out well — from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the time when the government tried to enjoin The Times and The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers. "



guess what, the general public has gotten a hell of alot smarter since then, and they see this treasonist paper for exactly what it is

[sure_fine]

"(If this was a declared was, you should by tried, convicted, and SHOT.)"




I assume you meant to say a 'delcared war'?


well it is, and was clearly done so.... so they ARE traitors

[sure_fine]

adding material to list

[madison10]

The NYT sounds like Natalie Mains. Same tune different "lady."

[Lurker]

Patriotism and the Press..

have apparently never met.

L

[Caipirabob]

TRAITORS!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Well aint that just Special the UN recomends it so the Slimes figure to take the heat off themselves by pushing it in the UN's direction of a recomendation...

Freakin Traitor's wriggle like Worms on a Hook

Journalist's Go Hang Yourself !

[philman_36]

You have to read the entire piece.
No, I don't. I'm not even gonna give 'em a hit on the page.

[philman_36]

IMO they've gone beyond the protections of the 1st Amnedment.
You're able condemn the government and not face reprisals...as in the King can't have you beheaded or imprisoned simply for telling him that you think the seige should end.
It isn't supposed to cover printing classified data for the world to see...as in lighting a lantern in the tower to notify the beseigers that you've left them fresh supplies outside the gate with a note about the next morning raid because you think the King should give up and end the seige.