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ABC News is Censoring Me
Vanity

Posted on 10/15/2008 10:34:24 PM PDT by SantaLuz

I've been following me own advice from today and posting on ABC News site. I've been doing this over the last couple of weeks. I've done it long enough to notice a pattern. My posts show up for about 1 minute and then are deleted by the moderator. In other cases they are deleted immediately. My posts are not vulgar or hateful, but conservative.

I also noticed tonight that other posts that were critical of George Stephanoplous were allowed to live for less than a minute before they were deleted.

So much for first amendment rights. These aren't for us little press people, but just for the Press. (Who defines what the Press is in this Web 2.0 age). Of course this isn't censorship in the literal sense, but it's censorship in the liberal sense. ABC is seriously in the tank for the O. They are big losers this election.


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To: Jeff Chandler
It's not that they are supposed to be objective, but rather that they CLAIM to be objective, which is a lie.

They are still licensed by the government, in part, to be journalists.

21 posted on 10/15/2008 11:05:44 PM PDT by unspun (Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
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To: SantaLuz

You are seriously and sadly mistaken if you think that your First Amendment rights extend to a private enterprise.

They can censor you till the cows come home, but at the end of the day, they have not affected your First Amendment rights at all.

If you know that they are censoring your views, avoid them. The best way to hurt a media source is by avoiding their product.

Ignore them and watch/read/view outlets that respect your views.


22 posted on 10/15/2008 11:08:48 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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To: SantaLuz

bttt


23 posted on 10/15/2008 11:10:24 PM PDT by timestax
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To: unspun
They are still licensed by the government, in part, to be journalists.

No, they are licensed to broadcast. The content is whatever they want unless it is obscene.

24 posted on 10/15/2008 11:11:41 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Bill Maher: President Obama's press Secretary.)
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To: unspun

Not to be flip, but is Mark Steyn a licensed journalist? Is Dick Morris? Is Karl Rove? Or Rush Limbaugh? Dennis Prager or Michael Medved? Deciding who get’s into the Press Club and who doesn’t, in the future of the Fairness Doctrine world, gives me a sinking feeling.


25 posted on 10/15/2008 11:12:02 PM PDT by SantaLuz
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To: Jeff Chandler
No, they are licensed to broadcast.

Therefore, they have a responstibility to serve the public truthfully -- and not as seditionists.

26 posted on 10/15/2008 11:13:36 PM PDT by unspun (Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
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To: SantaLuz
Not to be flip, but is Mark Steyn a licensed journalist? Is Dick Morris? Is Karl Rove? Or Rush Limbaugh? Dennis Prager or Michael Medved? Deciding who get’s into the Press Club and who doesn’t, in the future of the Fairness Doctrine world, gives me a sinking feeling.

Journalism 101: the difference between news reporting and commentary.

27 posted on 10/15/2008 11:14:36 PM PDT by unspun (Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
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To: SantaLuz

I had this happen earlier this year - before I gave up. They would delete me right away and there’s no way to complain. I never said anything vulgar either.
This was at Jake Tapper’s Political Punch site.


28 posted on 10/15/2008 11:20:46 PM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: unspun

They have a moral and ethical responsibility, but not a legal one. Big difference.


29 posted on 10/15/2008 11:21:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Bill Maher: President Obama's press Secretary.)
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To: unspun
I live near San Francisco, so don't confuse me with facts. By all public school, liberal definitions in this area I am being censored.
30 posted on 10/15/2008 11:21:09 PM PDT by SantaLuz
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To: SantaLuz

ABC News blogs are further left than Pravda or Mao’s Little Red Book.

Don’t worry about it. By doing so they are preaching to the choir.


31 posted on 10/15/2008 11:34:21 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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To: unspun

They are a rotten cavity, I agree. And, along with Fox News (apparently), they are betting that Obama will win and will shower them with blessings from his munificent hand. They haven’t watched the video. The useful idiots are the first to be killed. And in a cult of personality, it is impossible to predict which of the useful idiots has lost his usefulness.


32 posted on 10/15/2008 11:34:30 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Jeff Chandler
Maybe George is the new moderator.
33 posted on 10/16/2008 12:09:05 AM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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To: SantaLuz

The decision to delete your posts is probably being made by someone barely out of school acting on his own. If you can find the right snail mail addressee and send a polite letter, you might get the situation corrected.


34 posted on 10/16/2008 12:13:40 AM PDT by FreePoster (Political correctness will not die of its own sickness. It has to be killed by the ideas of freedom.)
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To: SantaLuz

“ABC is in the tank for the Big O.”

I’m shocked, shocked! I tell you I’m shocked!


35 posted on 10/16/2008 12:22:37 AM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: Jeff Chandler
They have a moral and ethical responsibility, but not a legal one. Big difference.

In the spirit of the law, they have a national responsibility.

36 posted on 10/16/2008 12:57:08 AM PDT by unspun (Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
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To: unspun
they have a responstibility to serve the public truthfully

But what is truth? (Laughingly turning away and returning to the Procurator's office).

37 posted on 10/16/2008 1:47:35 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (White Trash for Sarah!)
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To: SantaLuz

I have had the same experience there as well as at the CBS site.


38 posted on 10/16/2008 2:06:48 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: SantaLuz
It's a DNC controlled news/website. Still, it's good to make their moderators earn their paycheck now and then. Keeps them from getting into other mischief in mother's basement.
39 posted on 10/16/2008 2:45:07 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SantaLuz

That’s ok... ABC is just pissed it’s on its way to the ash heap of history.


40 posted on 10/16/2008 3:38:09 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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