Posted on 07/21/2010 9:37:34 AM PDT by Ballygrl
A group of liberal journalists used a now-defunct listserv to debate the merits of whether the federal government should forcibly shut down Fox News, according to a report in The Daily Caller.
The online publication earlier reported that the journalists in the private group discussed ways to shield Barack Obama from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal when Obama was a presidential candidate. The latest article showed that several members of Journolist aired complaints about Fox News on the listserv in March of this year and debated how best to rein it in.
Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, who said he was "genuinely scared" of the network, reportedly said "peer pressure" and "self-regulation" were not working.
"In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework," he said.
According to the report, UCLA law professor Jonathan Zasloff urged the federal government to stop the network.
"I hate to open this can of worms, but is there any reason why the FCC couldn't simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?" he wrote.
Continued at the link
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
>>I just cannot grasp why there are some citizens in the United States that just beg to live in tyranny. I just don’t get it. They don’t appreciate freedom.<<
Because “freedom” means responsibility and having to face the results of your own (potentially bad) decisions. Today’s electorate has been brought up in a “no matter what it is someone else’s fault” frame of mind. Freedom cannot exist in that mindset.
Scratch a liberal, find a Fascist.
This is getting good.
I tend to agree. The left seem to think the government is the solution to everything. Saw on Freeper comment (and I don't recall who): "The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."
I have only one question to ask, who died and why do these morons think they should be in charge?
MEDIA= Most EVIL Democrats In America.
When the ball goes up, and it will, if all goes according to Hoyle, the first to be addressed are the enablers who served us this totalitarian Marxist regime on a platter of their own making... the Elite Media. They deserve to be the first to go.
Then, their string-pulling puppetmasters from Chicago. Off with their heads!
Next, the rest of the Beltway establishemnt that either aided and abetted the Commie Cabal, or stood idly by as the scam was wrought on the entire country.
Last will be the removal of all 9 Supreme Court shills, who have routinely hidden from and shirked their responsibility RE: the reviewing of Hussein's Eligibility as a Natural Born Citizen. They have based this refusal on the thin ice of the plaintiffs' lack of "standing." There is no man or woman alive in America who does not have legitimate "standing" to request, and expect to receive, this inquiry. Firing Squad times nine.
There, that's done.
Then we begin to rebuild using the Constitution again for the first time in decades.
;-/
I refuse to call these people ‘journalists’. From now on, they are to be known as Communists posing as ‘journalists’.
Love it! oh and I stole that LOL.
Because they intend to be the tyrants.
Isn’t it amazing that they think that a free press is something that should not exist.
I think in this case the word”journalists” needdss to be renamed journaLIEsts.
I think in this case the word”journalists” needs to be renamed journaLIEsts.
Indeed....unfortunately, judging by the last 2 election cycles, they have a mass following of ignorance with which to tap into.
“I just cannot grasp why there are some citizens in the United States that just beg to live in tyranny.”
Because they intend to be the tyrants, and the tyrants live good.
>> “I hate to open this can of worms, but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?” he wrote. <<
Hehehe. Psssst. Mr Law Professor: Fox News doesn’t need a broadcast permit. About 40 years ago, they invented this neat little thing called cable TV.
1. Ezra Klein
2. Dave Weigel
3. Matthew Yglesias
4. David Dayen
5. Spencer Ackerman
6. Jeffrey Toobin
7. Eric Alterman
8. Paul Krugman
9. John Judis
10. Eve Fairbanks
11. Mike Allen
12. Ben Smith
13. Lisa Lerer
14. Joe Klein
15. Brad DeLong
16. Chris Hayes
17. Matt Duss
18. Jonathan Chait
19. Jesse Singal
20. Michael Cohen
21. Isaac Chotiner
22. Katha Pollitt
23. Alyssa Rosenberg
24. Rick Perlstein
25. Alex Rossmiller
26. Ed Kilgore
27. Walter Shapiro
28. Noam Scheiber
29. Michael Tomasky
30. Rich Yesels
31. Tim Fernholz
32. Dana Goldstein
33. Jonathan Cohn
34. Scott Winship
Sources:
(http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/25/the-death-of-journolist-does-privacy-end-at-the-edge-of-your-th/)
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20086.html)
(http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/after-journolist)
(http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/17/politico-the-secret-liberal-journalist-cabal/)
(http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/03/26/journolist-revealed-inside-the-liberal-media-email-cabal.aspx)
(http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/03/who-doesnt-love-the-journolist.html)
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2010/jun/25/usa)
(http://www.frumforum.com/the-inside-scoop-on-journolist)
(http://twitter.com/TimFernholz)
(http://twitter.com/DanaGoldstein)
(http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/9/22/142845/064?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime+%28TalkLeft%3A+The+Politics+of+Crime%29)
(http://www.frumforum.com/responding-to-john-hawkins)
Urinalists who graduated from various left wing “ Schools of Urinalism “
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.