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‘BIG BROTHER’ — FCC backs down on attempt to influence news coverage… at least for now
TO SEND ‘MONITORS’ TO GRILL EDITORS
AND REPORTERS IN U.S. NEWSROOMS
Are American newspapers a ‘polluted vehicle’?
Should Obama Administration bureaucrats
have oversight over journalists’ work?
A VOICE OF BALTIMORE EDITORIAL
By Alan Z. Forman
Thomas Jefferson, the great champion of Freedom of the Press, dramatically altered his view on the importance of free speech once he ascended to the presidency.
The First Amendment, he came to realize as the nation’s third chief executive, is not the friend of those in power.
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper,” Jefferson wrote in 1807, his next-to-last year in office. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
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In 2014, if newspapers can be said to be “polluted vehicle”s, then what does that say about the Internet? Facebook, Twitter and all the sundry online publications where most Americans get their news these days, and which are unencumbered by government regulation, and in many cases, truth. ............
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