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The Escalating Assault on Citizen Journalism
American Thinker ^
| Nov. 26, 2018
| Jack Cashill
Posted on 11/26/2018 11:34:13 AM PST by libstripper
In December 1997, after the FBI arrested independent journalist James Sanders for investigating the destruction of TWA Flight 800, not a single reporter at a post-arraignment press conference managed to frame even one First Amendment question.
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This past week, the progressive establishment attempted to silence two more independents. In the first case, Twitter and Facebook conspired to deny the audacious 25-year-old journalist Laura Loomer her rapidly growing audience. In the second, Special Counsel Robert Mueller lowered the boom on Jerome Corsi, a 72-year-old Harvard Ph.D.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1997; 199712; 1stamendment; corsi; freespeech; jamessanders; media; msm; mueller; sanders
Many of us have wondered what the Corsi persecution (no misspelling) had to do with "Russian influence" in the 1016 election. Looks like nothing; instead, Mueller and his happy band of witch hunters are just trying to get revenge against Corsi for exposing the Traitor Kerry and Obola, the Illegal.
To: libstripper
:: Russian influence” in the 1016 election ::
Let’s ask Sir Lancelot and rest of the Knights....
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posted on
11/26/2018 11:38:44 AM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: libstripper
How does everyone not get that unethical Weasel Mueller is largely a one trick, Perjury Trap pony?
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posted on
11/26/2018 11:41:10 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
:: Russian influence in the 1016 election ::
Lets ask Sir Lancelot and rest of the Knights....
~~~
The Cossacks cannot interfere with an election!
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:12:06 PM PST
by
z3n
To: libstripper
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:22:20 PM PST
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lordf for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
To: libstripper
“Assault on Citizen Journalism”
More like an assault on freedom of speech and our other constitutional rights.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:48:38 PM PST
by
detective
To: detective
“By challenging the medias defense of a Democratic administration, Sanders all but sacrificed his First Amendment rights.”
Unbelievable——and even worse now.
.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:54:26 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Kievan Rus' (Old East Slavic: Рѹ́сь (Rus' ), Рѹ́сьскаѧ землѧ (Rus'skaya zemlya), Latin: Rus(s)ia, Ruscia, Ruzzia, Rut(h)enia[2][3]) was a loose federation[4] of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century,[5] under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty.[5] The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors,[6] with Belarus and Russia deriving their names from it. Kievan Rus' Collusion
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:59:20 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: libstripper
The MEDIA is the DEEP STATE.
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posted on
11/26/2018 2:53:52 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: libstripper; All
Understand:
Leftists are Elitists; thus:
The First only applies to authorized professional journalists and pundits.
The Second only applies to authorized professional soldiers and police.
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posted on
11/26/2018 3:34:44 PM PST
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: libstripper
“The left applauds the silencing and the respectable right pretends not to notice.”
We expect hypocritical attack from the left. But the silence of those on the right is what makes their censorship twice as effective.
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posted on
11/26/2018 4:02:17 PM PST
by
KyCats
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