The Society of Professional Journalists puts out a magazine called Quill and a new publication called The Journalist and I still receive both of them, although I sometimes wonder why. Two things you can count on in every issue of Quill are headlined articles about ETHICS and what they call FOI -freedom of information. The current issue of The Journalist has a major article headlined "A Free Press / A Free Country" and the article starts out this way: "The first amendment to the U. S. Constitution says: `Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.' These are two of the most important rights we Americans possess under on] - Constitution. They form the bedrock of our democracy by creating a free flow of information to the public." In that light I am going to be interested in what our mainstream media does about Senator Harry Reid and his fellow Democrat Senators' blatant attack on Rush Limbaugh. I am not defending Limbaugh; he is fully capable of taking care of himself. Rush Limbaugh made a statement on the air that displeased Senator Reid, the Democrat majority leader in the House off Representatives. Limbaugh had every right to say whatever he chose to say, and Senator Reid, as an individual, had a right to disagree with him. But Senator Reid, the most powerful man in the Senate, took to the floor to disparage Limbaugh, and then sent a letter with more than 40 other Democrat Senators signatures attached ... not to Limbaugh, but to his boss, attempting to censure Rush Limbaugh. fie was not simply disagreeing with Limbaugh; he was trying to use his GOVERNMENT POWER to silence him. It strikes me that is precisely the type of thing the Constitution intends to protect us from. I can guarantee you if this had been a Republican Senator trying to shut down a liberal news commentator, the liberal media all over the world would right now be screaming bloody murder.
This is Gordon Sawyer and may the wind always be at your back.
Thursday
December 26th, 2024
1:11PM
