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Defend The Press

Posted on Thursday, January 25 at 08:49 by FurGaia
Among the dozens of noted journalists and authors participating in Defend The Press are Noam Chomsky, Phil Donahue, Daniel Ellsberg, Barbara Ehrenreich, Diane Farsetta, Laura Flanders, Robert McChesney, Greg Palast, Sheldon Rampton and Howard Zinn. Read what they are saying here.

Defend The Press was founded by the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy of Madison, Wisconsin, and by Free Press Working Group of Oakland, California, in the belief that the press cannot function if it is used by the government to prosecute political speech. Turning reporters into the investigative arm of the government subverts press freedoms, and chills dissenting speech in the United States.

If you believe that journalists should serve the public, not government agendas, visit the Defend The Press website at www.DefendthePress.org to make your voice heard!

Link: http://www.prwatch.org/defendthepress/supporters.html

Via Media Lens

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Cross-blogged @ The Cylinder

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  1. by boflaade
    Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:39 am
    For some reason the "media" is considered a special identity. They are above prosecution and don't have to give their "sources". Blatant lies can easly be hidden this way. They and priests can & will protect the guilty even if the guilty confess's their guilt to them. The media is not above adlibbing a story to make it more interesting and/or appearing true. The reasoning they give, for not testifying, is to protect their source. They feel that less people would be willing to talk to them if their identity was revealed. Perhaps, but NO ONE should be above the law. The media should be liable for what they say and willing to prove their facts.

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    Expect little from life and get more from it.

  2. by Lightwave
    Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:15 am
    I wonder if the "Press" will ever be held accountable for their blatent supression of the facts to 911?

    Maybe this case will set presedence.

    Can't have it both ways now.

    Besides, it is an ilegal war.

  3. by Diogenes
    Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:46 am
    Sunday morning CBC airs a show called Spin cycle
    I recommend it
    sunday the 28th was on the topic of news papers

    somebody with more search skill than I can find it
    sorry i couldn't


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    [juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]

    it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights"

    lex ferenda



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