Study: Media Covered Up Rev. Wright's Extremism - Page 2

TacticalEvilDan · 08-22-08, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

Here's a secret. The media is supposed to be a public servant. It is supposed to watch out for us. Remember that.

I'd like to know where you learned that, because that is where I plan on buying my drugs from now on.

bhkad · 08-22-08, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TacticalEvilDan

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I'd like to know where you learned that, because that is where I plan on buying my drugs from now on.

“Access to information is essential to the health of democracy for at least two reasons. First, it ensures that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation. Second, information serves a “checking function” by ensuring that elected representatives uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them. In some societies, an antagonistic relationship between media and government represents a vital and healthy element of fully functioning democracies. In post-conflict or ethnically homogenous (actually should read non-homogeneous – Kelemu) societies such a conflictual, tension ridden relationship may not be appropriate, but the role of the press to disseminate information as a way of mediating between the state and all facets of civil society remains critical.”

(June 1999,Technical Publication Series Center for Democracy and Governance,Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research U.S. Agency for International Development).

Bodhisattva · 08-22-08, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

“Access to information is essential to the health of democracy for at least two reasons. First, it ensures that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation. Second, information serves a “checking function” by ensuring that elected representatives uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them. In some societies, an antagonistic relationship between media and government represents a vital and healthy element of fully functioning democracies. In post-conflict or ethnically homogenous (actually should read non-homogeneous – Kelemu) societies such a conflictual, tension ridden relationship may not be appropriate, but the role of the press to disseminate information as a way of mediating between the state and all facets of civil society remains critical.”

(June 1999,Technical Publication Series Center for Democracy and Governance,Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research U.S. Agency for International Development).

All you did was to describe how a news agency sees their role.

What the rest of us understand, is that news agencies are for profit organizations and that they respond to ratings and nowhere in the Constitution, or any law for that matter, does it say that news agencies are "public servants". The first amendment only says that government cannot restrict, or abridge, the press or freedom of speech.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What you need to do is to PROVE that the press is a public servant by showing a law expressing it as such, or retract that statement. As it is, it looks foolish to back an obviously untrue statement, and the harder you try the more strange is becomes.

bhkad · 08-22-08, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Bodhisattva

All you did was to describe how a news agency sees their role.

What the rest of us understand, is that news agencies are for profit organizations and that they respond to ratings and nowhere in the Constitution, or any law for that matter, does it say that news agencies are "public servants". The first amendment only says that government cannot restrict, or abridge, the press or freedom of speech.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What you need to do is to PROVE that the press is a public servant by showing a law expressing it as such, or retract that statement. As it is, it looks foolish to back an obviously untrue statement, and the harder you try the more strange is becomes.

Yeah. You know what?

I take it all back.

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"Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size."

--- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Now.

You are left to think what you will.

Bodhisattva · 08-23-08, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

Yeah. You know what?

I take it all back.

Now.

You are left to think what you will.

What was the new idea? Media as a watchdog of government?

Befuddled_Stoner · 08-23-08, 03:50 AM

The media as something other than the complicit turd polisher of the status quo? How quaint! That's almost as amusingly idealistic as thinking that America is a moral bastion of freedom.

Bodhisattva · 08-23-08, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Befuddled_Stoner

The media as something other than the complicit turd polisher of the status quo? How quaint! That's almost as amusingly idealistic as thinking that America is a moral bastion of freedom.

America isn't?

Then who is?