SoCal Deek Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Liberals are born protestors. It’s in their DNA. It’s what’s always made them liberals. They live and love to fight against injustice...I get it. The problem is that in 21st Century America there’s so little true injustice around that they’ve gotten into some really, really fringe issues. Most people say that they’ve moved too far to the left, but I actually believe it’s all stems from their generationally common desire to protest against The Man. Unfortunately for this generation of liberals, The Man just isn’t all that oppressive anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 DANIEL GREENFIELD ON THE PRESS’S FIRST AMENDMENT THEORIES: The Media Master Race. Bernie Sanders wrapped up his appeal to the media by suggesting a tax on targeted ads to fund “civic-minded media” because, “more than two centuries after the constitution was signed, we cannot sit by and allow corporations, billionaires, and demagogues to destroy the Fourth Estate.” The Fourth Estate is a European concept. There’s no room in America for a special status for the media (or any other estates). Sanders ignores what the constitution actually says about the press. The First Amendment prohibits Congress from making laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Freedom of the press doesn’t bestow a special status on the press. It springs from freedom of speech. That is even more obvious in Madison’s original words, “The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty shall be inviolable.” A free press is an expression of everyone’s right to speak out. It is not a special institution that represents the public interest. It is the actual public. When the Framers wrote of a free press, they meant printers like Benjamin Franklin and his brother, and anyone who wanted to distribute a pamphlet, as well as the small number of larger papers. Their idea of the free press looked a lot like a low-tech internet and had nothing in common with a handful of giant corporate monopolies declaring that they are a journalistic priesthood serving the public interest. Sanders’ proposal for a government-funded “non-profit civic funded media” is even worse. The First Amendment banned government interference with a free press. The socialist politician would like to replace it with a government press that would promote his government takeover of medicine. A government takeover of the media is the opposite of the constitution’s guarantee of a free press. Ever since Trump won, the media has been insisting that it is a unique institution that must be protected from criticism by politicians (CNN and other outlets have claimed that Trump’s criticism of them is a threat to the First Amendment) and from competing speech by rival outlets and ordinary people. Media pressure campaigns on tech monopolies have convinced them to ban a number of conservative outlets and personalities to fight ‘disinformation’, ‘fake news’, and other meaningless terms. The media and its allies set up ‘fact checking’ services that largely ignored their own biases to target conservatives. The purpose of these ‘fact checking’ services isn’t to argue, but to advocate for censoring conservatives. More at the link: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedge Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Cry us a RIVER, bro: Brian Stelter does himself and other ‘journos’ NO favors playing the media victim card again (watch) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 TDS ALERT: The Washington Post paid a reporter to travel to Alabama and investigate how Hurricane Dorian didn’t do any damage ? . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 11 minutes ago, B-Man said: TDS ALERT: The Washington Post paid a reporter to travel to Alabama and investigate how Hurricane Dorian didn’t do any damage ? . pretty big state, could take a while to cover it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Bow to China, Gray Lady, bow to China. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 NBC News wonders: Why is ending child marriage so controversial? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said: Bow to China, Gray Lady, bow to China. Update: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said: Bow to China, Gray Lady, bow to China. NYT completely swept under the rug the horror of the murders of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot for a long time until they couldn't hide it any more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 31 minutes ago, B-Man said: Update: can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, amirite? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Miner Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 20 minutes ago, /dev/null said: can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, amirite? But as we've learned from the abortion crowd, egg lives don't matter. Unless they're bald eagle eggs. Those things are precious bald eagle lives dammit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 1 hour ago, B-Man said: Update: But...they were right. He was a great revolutionary figure. That he killed 60 million people doesn't change that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 The NYT 1953 obit of Joseph Stalin is still online though, as is their recent article about “Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism.” ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 New York Times writer’s advice to Democrats: Lie about what you believe to defeat Trump by Eddie Scarry Original Article . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 HE’S NOT WRONG: Angry Trump: ‘The Media Are an Arm of the Democrat Party.’ . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 “AIRPLANES TOOK AIM”: ? Was no one flying the planes? Were they motivated by anything in particular? For a newspaper of record, the NYT sure seems to miss an awful lot of historical context. UPDATE: The tweet has since been deleted, but screencaps are forever. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 More NYT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 1 hour ago, B-Man said: More NYT. that's the only demographic reading the paper or taking it seriously any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 THEY DIDN’T BUTCHER IT; THEY’RE HACKS WHO HACKED IT: PolitiFact Butchers Fact Check On Trump And Ralph Northam. Previously: Michael Brown PolitiFact Check: Murder Is What Democrats Say It Is, or Something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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