I'm already fed up with the egregious FCC lambaste of ownership regulations regarding media in this country but now I'm just plain frightened.
My two or three ardent readers might have previewed this yesterday. For the two or three others I bring you objurgately[sic]:
The fascist rule coming soon to written news media.
‘The Consequences of Permissive Neglect’, argues that the U.S. media has become an open vault of classified information on U.S. intelligence collection sources and methods which pose a serious, seemingly intractable problem for U.S. national security. In effect, the CIA wants the vault sealed shut.
This kind of stuff isn't new. Everyone remembers "deep throat" (not that one silly). Presidents throughout history have, at times, tried and succeeded in stifling the media. But this is a more.
Let’s be blunt. These guys really don’t believe in the 1st Amendment, he says. They believe in secrecy, not sunshine, they believe in control, not pluralism. They want to intimidate and chill the press, and they want to criminalize the free flow of discussion, and they want to use September 11 as the lever to do this.
Maybe I'm just paranoid. But whom among us wouldn't be these days? Is government trying seriously to take over the media? This story is about national security to be sure. [A caveat:rich pure&simple by way of employment, is privy to certain military "secrets" but rich takes his responsibility to safeguard that information very seriously.]
No American administration has governed this country without, at some point, taking a stab at the problem of leaks to the media. Indeed, John Adams, in what historians agree was the one disastrous error of his illustrious career, promulgated the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which threatened with jail anyone who published scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States.
Isn't this domination of media by the government one of the reasons we "liberated" Iraq? Study history lest we make the same mistakes. That's all I have to say. I'm exhausted. Gonna go surfing now.
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