Posted on 01/16/2017 1:37:44 PM PST by Maceman
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This is one reason why the move "might" be made to another building to a venue that could accomodate 400 or more of the "press" including bloggers, etc. Newt Gingrich said just the other night that the back of the elite media cabal needs to be broken. The daily briefings should also not be televised ... Mara Liasson said today that some reporters would not attend if they weren't televised (she's not one of them). Ari Fleishcher, Laura Ingraham said that the briefings have become a daily show for the cameras ... there are serious print reporters who would like to ask serious questions, but the network folks wants 'face' time. LOTS could be done to curb the enemedia/presstitutes .... I suspect that as disrespectful as they've been to Trump & considering all the fake news they've been making up/spouting, that changes will occur.
Something I saw recently that cracked me up: The "beatings tweeting will continue until morale improves" :-)
I’d love to see the CNNers way in the back, shouting questions, trying to get attention.
Great post that really cuts to the core of the issue. Freedom of the press is an individual right. Thanks.
Similar to the way "freedom of speech" in the Constitution refers to the freedom of the spoken word, freedom of the "press", simply means the freedom of the written word.
And that's a freedom for all individuals and not just some man made group such as a professional news organization.
As if the poster has another problem?
Maceman's post is right on target.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/408/665.html
United States Supreme Court
BRANZBURG v. HAYES, (1972)
No. 70-85
Argued: February 23, 1972 Decided: June 29, 1972
“Until now the only testimonial privilege for unofficial witnesses that is rooted in the Federal Constitution is the Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination. We are asked to create another by interpreting the First Amendment to grant newsmen a testimonial privilege that other citizens do not enjoy. This we decline to do.”
Speaking of the “press”..... “They honestly think they are a part of the government”.....
Indeed they do, so where is their beef? Numerous government departments are lodged all over DC. Send the whining snobbish bastards to some distant corner of a government owned warehouse in a far corner of the District and let them whine all they want. there are consequences for their dishonesty and now is the time to bring them into line. Gotta love Trump, he plays hard ball.
Freedom of the press is defined in the Constitution. What constitutes “the press” is not. Trump can expand the press pool to include anyone with a blog and every high school newspaper in the country and there is nothing to say that he is wrong to do so.
I agree with your take on it.
More generally, it is IMHO the right of the people to be someone who publishes information in any format.Journalists promote the idea that they, and they alone, constitute the press. In reality when journalists think of the press they mean the Associated Press and its membership. That is an arrogant, elitist view in which they consider themselves to be, essentially, an established priesthood above comparison with bloggers.
The AP newswire is their god - but today, the Internet has vastly more bandwidth than the AP does.
Shemp needs to go on assignment investigating the trail of Barry’s bath houses.
Great post.
There is nothing in there about free and unfettered access to any governmental official. There is no right to pontificate and lie with impunity. There is no setting the whores up as a separate, preferred class with special distinctions and privileges.
The First simply prohibits Congress from making laws that would restrict the freedom of the press. That's all.
It’s also settled law.
>> Seems to me “the press” ...
Relating to the printing press which was often a quasi-underground operation during the Revolutionary period.
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On the other hand, the MSM is the equivalent of the Queen’s propaganda arm.
-PJ
The Constitutional provision in 1A prohibiting Congress from making laws “abridging the freedom of the press” indeed, does apply to everyone. The freedom to publish, which is what is meant, is a freedom that every American enjoys. It does not inhere only, and especially not exclusively, to professional journalists. They are not a sacred caste.
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