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To: MarkWar
our culture provides NO MECHANISM AT ALL for removing journalists who prove themselve to be scum.

That is where conservatives have long been stuck, but when you consider that journalism is provably not unbiased, under the Constitution the FCC does not have the right to allow the broadcasting of journalism. The FCC and its licensees can be sued and forced by SCotUS to desist (provided that the Administration will enforce SCotUS's ruling, something I wouldn't bet a nickel on had Gore been named president as SCoFl attempted to assure.

I am proposing a way that our society actually could and should impeach broadcast journalism en masse.

13 posted on 09/14/2001 7:46:59 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
The First Amendment gets wildly distorted by those who style themselves "the press." First, journalism is only a part of the press, since the First Amendment obviously covers magazines and books.

Second, the First Amendment gives protection but not authority to the press. Precisely because of the blanket protection the First Amendment gives the press, journalism deserves no special standing in court. How could it, when any Tom, Dick, or Harry can on his own whim start up a newspaper? How could it, when you practically have to drop your printing press on someone's head in order to be punished for abusing a press? Journalism's intrinsic authority is therefore only just above that of grafitti on the men's room wall.

If a court is to have respect it must act on the basis of fact. To have a basis in fact it must have testimony under oath rather than urban legends--whether they be spread through the internet or printed in The New York Times by a Jason Blair or a Maureen Dowd and echoed by the rest of journalism.


227 posted on 06/21/2003 6:08:47 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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515 posted on 03/21/2004 8:47:02 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Space Available for Rent or Lease by the Day, Week, or Month. Reasonable Rates. Inquire within.)
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