The 1st amendment is sacred to Americans and the rights assured to us ere so important to the founders they put them right in the #1 slot. The right to speak ones mind, especially to me, is so fundamental to me I couldn’t live without it. In addition, the 1st amendment guarantees the right of free association and, which was very important to the founders, the freedom of the press. In fact, the founders knew Americans wanted to live their lives and not have to worry about what the government is doing, plus most Americans were uneducated back then. Therefore, they expected the press to be the fourth estate, the watchers of government just as it was during the revolution. The founders knew a press free of government interference could expose corruption without fear of going to prison or being executed. A free press should ensure a corruption free government.
The founders never dreamed the press would squander this sacred right the way they have, like I care about Miley Cyrus ‘twerking’ or what George Clooney is up to. Even with all the trash press we have,which is 80% of it, there are some good people out there trying to keep the government in check. The Snowden case is a great example, to me he and the author is a hero, sorry, I believe in the 4th amendment too and am simply not afraid of terrorists. Woodward and Bernstein is another great example of the press doing something good, but I always wondered how far they would have gone if LBJ or JFK were in office instead of Nixon.
There simply are not a lot of current cases of the media doing their job of being the fourth estate. Fox talks about 3 scandals and Obamacare all the time and MSNBC is stuck in New Jersey with no hope of covering anything else anytime soon. I cannot even watch CNN or the networks anymore as they are a mere shell of the news empires they used to be.
Regardless of what we think of the press it is still a free press or maybe not anymore…
Obama who has been treated extremely well by the press with the exception of Fox News has been turning into a tyrant as of late. First we heard he indicted Jay Rosen of Fox News, tapped his phones and his parents phones. If that wasn’t bad enough Obama also went after the Associated Press, through Eric Holder and the DOJ, they subpoenaed their phone records trying to track down the ‘leaks’ in his administration. This behavior is insane and unprecedented in American history, with a couple eras with extenuation circumstances.
But wait, there is now more! Obama or someone from the FCC wants to sit in every news outlet in America in order to make sure Americans are getting the news coverage the FCC feels is important. The FCC has identified 8 categories that they deem critical for news organizations to cover. This is, as of now, just a suggestion which is open to public debate, but if this is enacted this country is over. Seriously.
In Soviet Russia there was no more hated a person than the commissars, political agents who enforced the communist doctrine. These are the guys who shot Soviet troops if the retreated from the Germans during WWII, it is unknown how many they killed. These guys also went around and confiscated food in Stalingrad and Leningrad during the sieges and if you resisted they killed you They also decided who eats and who didn’t, if you could work you ate, if you were politically connected, you ate. They were also in charge of propaganda, the Germans too the city, not according to the commissars, the Soviets never lost a battle…
That is how I see these FCC people sitting in news rooms, they decide who can retreat safely, who eats and what is news. Granted, we don’t know exactly what the plan is, but this isn’t good, at all. The FCC wants to be in every news organizations news room including newspapers or print media, which isn’t even the FCC’s jurisdiction.
Worse yet, only Fox is reporting on this now. MSNBC is on day 58 of the traffic jam ‘scandal’ with no real new information to report. If you just watch MSNBC you are the most uninformed person in the room.Sure, you know about lane closures on the GWB, but you are then told the IRS, Fast and Furious, Obama going to Las Vegas during a terrorist attack on a ambassador was taking place are all fake scandals without 1 piece of evidence, which isn’t true at all. In fact, it is MSNBC who has zero evidence, they are actually clearing him, Christie knew anything, ordered anything or even talked with most of the people involved during the traffic jam.
It’s unreal what is going on, the media being bullied in strange ways, the president, ever since Bush, has accumulated more and more power, is picking and choosing what laws to enforce or even change without congresses approval and now they are thinking about having commissars in news rooms… are you worried yet? I am not saying Obama is the devil as this trend started well before he was even a senator, but he is certainly moving quickly, quietly, to expand these powers and influence over the press.
Even George Bush didn’t move against the press when the NY times printed national security articles based on leaks. He didn’t do anything to the paper except, maybe, ignore them. However, Obama is going nuts on the press over inconsequential media leaks and has gone well beyond the scope of those leaks with the media.
Be worried, very worried. While our press has turned into a joke already if government controls news stories or the news flow you haven’t seen anything yet. Look for the stories, watch what happens as this is our freedom we are talking about now.
Government Controlled Press, In America?
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