A modest proposal: Isn’t it time for some “common-sense media control”?
We live in a sick society, and we get the media we deserve. Connecticut was a prime example. The American public needed solemnity, grieving, and thoughtful reflection. Our media gave us the exact opposite.
The founding founders never envisioned the damage that could be done by a 24-hour news cycle. The media incentivizes killers by giving them attention, and they put innocent people in danger. Clearly, we cannot sit by and hope this situation will improve. How many more deaths will it take before someone does something?
I know what you’re thinking: Free societies are inherently messy. And what about the First Amendment?
I’m not suggesting we completely abolish the media. But perhaps we should curtail it. Isn’t it time for some common sense media control?
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Sounds like an interesting proposal.
After all, “common sense” revision of the Second Amendment pretty much guarantees that there will come “common sense” revisions of the First.
After all, just because those Rights were recognized, not conferred as Privileges (like driving) shouldn’t matter, right?
After all, the ability of good and decent citizens to defend themselves with words, as well as firearms, should be curtailed.
And after all, the BSM (Bull Sh*t Media) is already a propaganda organ rather than a news one, why not?
ProfShadow on December 17, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Well, I’m the first to say that the LSM is full of crap and propagandists rather than journalists, but I still do not think we can or should control them. Absolutely not. We can vigorously disagree and expose their BS, but we have totally lost the republic if we shut them up.
NavyMustang on December 17, 2012 at 9:22 AM
The 1st Amendment doesn’t say anything about TV, radio, internet etc. Just the “press”. These electronic things need to be banned, and the print media shall have severe common sense regulations applied. If it saves one life, it’ll be worth it.
forest on December 17, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Yup. And the difference between the output of a high-speed rotary ‘assault’ press and the printing presses of the Founder’s time is far greater than that of a machine gun and a flintlock musket. Clearly, the Founders could never have imagined the harm modern presses can do and would have wanted to restrict them if they had.
PersonFromPorlock on December 17, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I blamed them as well. http://sparks.brushfireoffreedom.org/post/2012/12/16/Molon-Labe.aspx
Vultures, everywhere.
Irritable Pundit on December 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Arrgh! Founders’ time.
HA needs an ‘edit’ function.
PersonFromPorlock on December 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Very droll.
The tv media was particularly shameful including Fox. They all now seem to think that Twitter and Facebook are legitimate and reliable sources of news which is pathetic.
CorporatePiggy on December 17, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Let’s see:
Susan Smith and Adrea Yates both drowned their kids. Let’s ban water.
John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer and Jerry Sandusky all destroyed multiple young men’s lives. Let’s ban homosexuality.
Idi Amin, Stalin, and Mao, along with the Aztecs killed untolled numbers of people via various means.
Obviously, in order to stop humans killing humans, the only common thread in all of these cases is humans. To stop murder, we need to ban human beings.
rbj on December 17, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Much as I hate the media and the sly lies they perpetrate, James Callendar, the man who was hired by Jefferson to smear Adams (and started the whole Sally Hemmings rumor) called Adams a hideous hermaphrodite, attacked Hamilton and other Federalists.
For Money.
If the founders were okay with this…
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Also remember that journalisms highest honor, a Pulitzer, is named after a man who invented yellow journalism.
LincolntheHun on December 17, 2012 at 10:18 AM
I’ve turned the “tv” media OFF. I don’t see the point in wasting my valuable time watching stuff that is just spin for one ideology…I curtailed their speech rights by not allowing them in my home, no act of Congress needed.
It’s been liberating. I highly recommend it. May the twisted liberal traitors go bankrupt financially as they have bankrupted their morality.
Alinsky on December 17, 2012 at 10:18 AM
I think people can still have limited capacity printing presses and maybe billboards. But sophisticated mass media tools like TV, radio and the internet should only be allowed into the hands of the government.
hawksruleva on December 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM
no. It’s time to break up the media. To open up the airwaves. To embrace Freedom. To place antitrust actions against the media so there is a liberal logjam on them.
competition is good.
unseen on December 17, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Haha. The Constitution didn’t have the Internet or TVs in mind when it was written.
Seriously though, this is why they do this stuff. If we’re going to get reactionary laws out of this tragedy, we may as well get some that might have stopped the shooting. Nothing they’ve proposed for gun control would have stopped this. Makes it really hard to take them seriously.
Esthier on December 17, 2012 at 11:49 AM