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2014-02-18 -Land of the Free

US under fire in global press freedom report

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Posted by Fred 2014-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Abuses to press fredom in the United States? That is what happens when you have a racist, fascist like George W Bush in the White House! Oh wait!

Posted by JFM 2014-02-18 06:38|| 2014-02-18 06:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Largely a self inflicted wound amongst the Permanent Party Media organization. To paraphrase a member of the Permanent Party - what difference does it make.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-18 08:27|| 2014-02-18 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly P2K. If the MSM had done their jobs and pushed back this regime would have folded like a cheap suit.

Of course, they instead tugged their forelock and whimpered "Yes massa" to the One.

Posted by AlanC 2014-02-18 08:32|| 2014-02-18 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The group [a French press watchdog], known by its French acronym RSF, said the United States had suffered one of the most significant declines in press freedom last year, dropping 13 places to 46th in the 180-country index, wedged between Romania and Haiti.
The fact this story appears in the Pakistain press and not the U.S. press is noteworthy. Our MSM has become lap dogs, apologists, and abetters for Progressive criminality.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-02-18 08:49|| 2014-02-18 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't be silly, John! It was all over the US MSM. Well, Yahoo News carried it. Prolly for all of five minutes.

But anyway, how does the government's pursuit of leakers erode freedom of the press?

Posted by Bobby 2014-02-18 08:56|| 2014-02-18 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 The United States was singled out for its pursuit of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the conviction of WikiLeaks informer Bradley Manning and the secret seizure of phone records from the Associated Press.

I'd say the Snowden and Manning stories are in a different class from the seizure of phone records from the AP> The latter [tapping James Rosen's phone] involves the 1st Amendment freedom of press rights--most likely the 4th Amendment individual right too.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-02-18 09:33|| 2014-02-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Bobby, it's a lot more than pursuing leakers. It's how everything security or not becomes security and therefore forbidden. It's attacking and threatening reporters and organizations with the IRS, FCC and probably the EPA too.

How many times has Zero attacked and threatened FOX and anyone else that doesn't play his tune on command?

Posted by AlanC 2014-02-18 09:53|| 2014-02-18 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree Alan, and these are just the "attacks" that we can see, or that have been discovered.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-18 10:00|| 2014-02-18 10:00|| Front Page Top

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