What branch of the US government does the Media represent? They seem convinced that they have an active role to play in US elections besides just reporting the News. Getting a little retired of repeating the cycle where every Republican-nominee is a racist/homophobe who is worse than the last nominee who in-turn was worse than Hitler. Whoever runs (if Trump doesn’t) will be “worse than Trump.”
I think Ron DeSantis will be the next Repub candidate. And so do a lot of people I know. He’s smart as they come, personable, a strong governor who takes no shi-ite from anyone. Nice family man. Plus he has no TDS to overcome.
His most brilliant move was to go up to Brandon, FL to announce that companies in FL did not have to follow some idiot Biden rule that all employees had to be vaxed. Companies could choose for themselves.
“Let’s Go Brandon” in spades.
The scandal is that “the media” exists as an entity at all. Two things:
- In the second half of the 19th Century the wire services in general and the Associated (get it? associated) Press in particular homogenized journalism. Journalism coalesced decisively about journalists’ shared interest in attracting attention and influence. You know, “if it bleeds, it leads” and suchlike.
- The 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision asserted that the First Amendment modified libel law. That was a novel and unconstitutional interpretation. The reason being that none of the amendments in the Bill of Rights was intended to modify anyone’s existing rights. In a sense the first eight amendments are basically window dressing, and the ninth and tenth amendments tell the tale. Whatever rights existed before the passage of the first ten amendments - including the right to sue for libel - existed unchanged after the passage of the BoR.
There is a dire need for a case to be brought to SCOTUS enabling it to reconsider Sullivan . Thereby enabling libel suits to destroy “the media.” Most especially the wire services. They are killing us.