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Press protection needs to be contingent on acting in public interest, evaluating newsworthiness, etc.
No, that's press ethics. If press protection is contingent on something arbitrarily evaluated, press protection is arbitrary. Not good™
That presumes "press ethics" is less imaginatory than benevolent government, which seems to be an outdated assumption.
I don't see relying on one as inherently more or less dangerous than the other.
"Arbitrarily evaluated" also seems inaccurate. You can have reasonably objective criteria for good-faith press behavior.
And however lax or tight those criteria are, WL is waaaaay across the line.
If something is illegal for ordinary individuals to do, "I call myself press, even though I don't behave like it" can't be license to do it.
A good question but deflecting from the real question which is does this pave our gov't to prosecute news organizations they don't like.
Um, no. That supposes WL is a news org. He's not.
I already know this whole administration is fascist/neonazi scum. That's not going to make me sympathetic for the scum who installed them.
PoS MRA whose vendetta against women threw the country and the whole world under the bus.
Honestly having them fight each other at least keeps them busy & distracted from harming the people they actually want to harm.
I mean, yes. But it also erodes away ground that may never recover. That is my concern, the being able to come back from it part.
If you want to be able to publish info that would otherwise be invasion of individuals' privacy, classified, etc., & protect your sources...
...you need to actually behave as press, avoid publishing parts that are not newsworthy and that harm individuals who are innocent...
Publishers do that all the time & you have the unfortunate situ where you've Rupert Murdoch in your midst...his rags & TV lge influ politics
And this is a huge problem, not a practice people should be defending.
Yes it is an huge problem...press should be unfettered from political influence...unfortunately powerful men (usually) in position t corrupt
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