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2015-01-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

That'll sure winnow out all them journalistic poseurs

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Posted by badanov 2015-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 My reading of this is that Republicans and Democrats alike are setting up a system whereby they can extract more money for press passes to raise revenue.

It isn't a partisan thing or even a freedom of speech thing. It's just more public sector officiousness and greed. Bad but not the same as trying to control the information stream.

Posted by no mo uro 2015-01-21 05:11|| 2015-01-21 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Should probably send them all to that other guy's SERE school, in case they're captured. That might thin their ranks and inject a little reality into their worlds.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-01-21 07:17|| 2015-01-21 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not so much a fund raiser on press passes as it is a plan to assure that only licensed, approved toadies and syncophants are around when they say something stupid. Because, you know it's going to happen.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-01-21 07:49|| 2015-01-21 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 So much or freedom of the press.

I don't consider the mainstream media outlets as press... More like propaganda outlets.

If you don't toe the government line your out.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-01-21 08:16|| 2015-01-21 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 freedom of the press (circa 1792) meant the technology not the institution. It was all about free flow of information. That is not what happens in the 'Press' (circa 2015). No, that institution is not entitled to what amounts to another "title of nobility". Remember they keep pushing the entitlement to secrecy of source. One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-21 08:34|| 2015-01-21 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 It'll be passed on to the public as usual.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-01-21 13:06|| 2015-01-21 13:06|| Front Page Top

#7 The applicant must also certify that, with the exception of the Alabama Press Association and the Alabama Broadcasters Association, and the exception of receiving advertising revenue, they have no affiliation with any person, firm, corporation, association, or political party that attempts to influence legislative issues or lobby members of the Alabama Legislature.

You could drive a truck through that exception.

I think there must be ways of certifying how many visits a web site receives. That is certainly as good a measure of how many people read it as the ways they use to measure radio and TV audiences.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-01-21 13:15|| 2015-01-21 13:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Ben Franklin was on salary? Who knew?

Posted by KBK 2015-01-21 13:20|| 2015-01-21 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 It is an attempt to control the message.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-21 18:47|| 2015-01-21 18:47|| Front Page Top

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