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In reply to the discussion: Was Jeff Gannon a journalist? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)a 'journalist'? Was Jefferson? THEY WROTE THE DOCUMENTS that are the basis and foundation of this country. They wrote pamphlets, nailed declarations to trees and doors, Ben Franklin was his day's version of a BLOGGER, using a pseudonym.
They didn't use any words to define themselves, they wrote, the reported news, they wrote documents that established the law of the new nation they helped to found.
And then they wrote an Amendment making their writing LEGAL and PROTECTED, because until then, a certain King had not considered them 'protected' for their writings.
The founders who wrote the Law of the Land which the SC bases all of its decisions on, were not concerned with 'labels' for those who write. They wanted ALL OF THEM protected.
What you are proposing, to pick and choose who is protected regarding what they write, if it ever were to come to pass, would end this democracy.
Is Rachel Maddow a journalist protected by the 1st Amendment??
Should she be subject to punishment for her 'journalism'? Because if you think that Hannity et al, then you can be sure anyone outside the Corporate Media WILL BE. So dangerous, I don't know what to say anymore.
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