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After Aiding Antifa, MSNBC Questions the ‘Pitfalls of Free Speech’

2017-08-23

[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Over the course of last week, on NBC and MSNBC, host Chuck Todd gave a leg up to the violent Antifa
...purveyors of mindless lefty revolution...
movement by letting them defend their assaults on the police and innocent people not once, but twice. Todd’s interviews showed just how tolerant he was of those who use violence to shut down free speech. And while Todd was absent from MTP Daily on Monday, Katy Tur picked up his torch and proudly pushed back against the First Amendment’s acknowledgment of a person’s right to free speech.

"And challenging the First Amendment," Tur declared during the show’s opening tease. "Should holy warrior groups have the right to rally? We'll delve into the power and pitfalls of free speech."

When Tur finally got around to targeting free speech rights later in the show, she began by bringing up the controversial rally in Boston, Massachusetts, and counter-protest that dwarfed it. "Over the weekend the debate over free speech raged on," was how she described the events of Saturday, with no mention of the bystanders beaten or the police doused with bottles of urine by Antifa.

Posted by:Fred

#4 Yellow journalism is legal. Outright fraud and libel isn't.

Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-23 15:01

#3 #1 They bring up the more pertinent question: Should MSNBC have the right to broadcast?

Daniel: Unfortunately, yes. Perhaps, their broadcasts should be required to come with a disclaimer or or warning such as: "Warning, This is Pure Bullshit. Believe It at Your Own Peril."

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-23 11:33

#2 Hmmm...Freedom of the Press, aka 1st Amendment, was about the technology of the flow of information which in 1790 was the printing press. It was not about an institution divorced from the consequences of supply and demand. The internet closely aligns with the concept and intent of the 1st Amendment not what a self serving institution that refers to itself as the 'press' and thus proclaiming protection from consequences that any other business is subject to for deception, libel, reckless disregard, et al.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-23 07:29

#1 They bring up the more pertinent question: Should MSNBC have the right to broadcast?

Posted by: Daniel 2017-08-23 01:43

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