Posted on 05/16/2010 6:49:09 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron
MONDAY: President will sign 'Freedom of Press Act' in Oval Office. The signing will be pooled press... Developing...
I don't know what to make of this except it stinks to high heaven.
Anyone have any insight?
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Agreed that it stinks to high heaven.
Is this where “bloggers” are not protected as journalists?
Huh? Since everything Bambi says means exactly its opposite, I’d say that Monday is the end of the First Amendment.
The title of the act is probably exactly the opposite content of the plain reading of its title.
Unless of course, as I suspect, the Freedom of Press Act deliniates exactly what Freedoms the Press should expect to be curtailed.
Freedom for “the” government to PRESS their boot on the neck of others?????
I think ‘no details’ spells it out.
This will a carefully controlled obamma press event.
As of Monday, I’d say freedom of the press will be a thing of the past.
Barf alert!!!
Another 0rwellian name from the Democrats.
I believe it is a “bailout” (buyout) of the news media.
The formerly free press will now be a government run propaganda machine.
Damn, this is a night mare turning into realilty.
I hope my other ones don’t come true, I’m sure we all have the same ones.
Just damn.
From JTA:
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — President Obama will sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act into law, joined by six members and three generations of the slain journalist’s family.
The act, named in honor of the Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and decapitated by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002, expands the examination of press freedom worldwide in the U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report. It will be signed into law Monday morning.
“Violators of press freedom throughout the world now know that they will be closely watched,” Pearl’s father, Judea, said before leaving Los Angeles for Washington. “This is something our son Danny fought for all his life.”
Also participating in the White House ceremony will be Pearl’s widow, Mariane, and their son, Adam Daniel, who will mark his eighth birthday on May 28; his mother, Ruth; and sisters Michelle and Tamara.
Adam was born three months after the killing of his father, while the reporter was pursuing an investigative story on the al-Qaida financial network.
The new law mandates the State Department to identify countries in which there are violations of press freedom; determine whether the government authorities of those countries participate in, facilitate or condone the violations; and report the actions these governments have taken to preserve the safety and independence of the media and ensure the prosecution of those who attack or murder journalists.
Link to another thread, with a link to the text of the bill. Also on JPost
“Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act to be law (Obama to sign—also on Drudge)”
JTA ^ | 16 May 2010 | Unknown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2514822/posts
Since we haven’t heard a damned thing about this, may we assume that it’s another Obama Executive Order?
“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kind of cool!”
What do you mean?
Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act to be law
"...The act...expands the examination of press freedom worldwide in the U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report. It will be signed into law Monday morning."
Just as we suspected.
What ever moron.
Information is distracting, you know (or so the leader says)! Especially if it can lead you directly to all the Founders' words and ideas of liberty so carefully censored from the nation's textbooks.
Exposure to the ideas of 1776 and 1787 would be especially "distracting," because you might become less "dumbed down" and actually recognize tyranny when it is at your door.
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