{"id":19853,"date":"2010-07-24T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19853"},"modified":"2010-07-25T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:13:37","slug":"cnn-we-need-to-crack-down-on-this-free-speech-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19853","title":{"rendered":"CNN: We need to crack down on this free speech fad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up this video at our buddy, Gateway Pundit<\/a>. Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts at CNN discuss how there’s just too much free speech going on out here and it’s cutting into their own credibility and viewer share;<\/p>\n

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Their claim is that there are just too many stories going around that they don’t approve of and they just don’t have the time to check the stories out (like it’s somehow the responsibility of jerks with J-school diplomas to cleanse the internet). Kind of like all of the crap CNN started spreading on the cable-ways which spawned the need for bloggers. <\/p>\n

I’ll admit that I jumped the gun twice on phony soldier stories, but I owned up to it both times. I’ve never seen CNN own up to any of their mistakes – so I guess they ought to clean up their own yard before they start complaining about mine.<\/p>\n

Besides, this Sherrod story wasn’t too far off the mark. I mean, all of this crap about her not saying what we think she said is horseshit – it’s on video. It’s not like we put words in her mouth. And her audience was laughing and clapping and having a good old time before they knew how the story was going to turn out. <\/p>\n

The video shows what it shows and no amount of false hand-wringing over bloggers will change that.<\/p>\n

ADDED Sporkmaster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seems like the Simpson were a head of the game when they made this. <\/p>\n

\nKent:<\/strong>\tA new Internet watchdog is creating a stir in Springfield.
\n\tMr. “X”, if that is real name, has come up with a
\n\tsensational scoop.
\nHomer:<\/strong>\t[watching at home] <\/em>Darn tooting!
\nKent:<\/strong>\tBut we must never forget that the real news is on local
\n\tTV, delivered by real officially licensed newsmen, like
\n\tme, Kent Brockman. Coming up: how do they get those dogs
\n\tto talk on the beer commercials? [a reporter in a big
\n\tcowboy hat appears]<\/em> Cowboy Steve will tell you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up this video at our buddy, Gateway Pundit. Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts … CNN: We need to crack down on this free speech fad<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}