[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"It's a journalist's job to report the news, not to participate in government prosecutions. The press cannot function if it is used by the government to prosecute political speech, and hauling a journalist into a military court erodes the separation between government and press. Turning reporters into the investigative arm of the government subverts press freedoms and chills dissenting speech in the United States."

The claim here is that "The News" identifies itself to journalists, who have no motive other than to reveal that NEWS to the people. The reality is that

Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin

The News does not spring full-grown from Athena's brow, human beings - under warrant of the Constitution - have the freedom to decide what they are going to report, and what they will not report. Presumptively, therefore, journalism is politics. Neither more nor less.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Milhous]

The News does not spring full-grown from Athena's brow

Indeed. Big media's mythology shtick takes a hit. LOL.