Forum Post: Telling the truth
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 10:28 p.m. EST by Roxee
(0)
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
Shouldn't the media be requiredto start telling the truth.
Public Forum
0 comments 2 days ago by agkaiser
1 comments 6 days ago by agkaiser
0 comments 1 week ago by agkaiser
1 comments 1 week ago by agkaiser
0 comments 2 weeks ago by agkaiser
1 comments 3 weeks ago by agkaiser
0 comments 1 month ago by agkaiser
1 comments 2 months ago by agkaiser
0 comments 2 months ago by factsrfun
7 comments 2 months ago by factsrfun
4 comments 2 months ago by factsrfun
5 comments 3 months ago by factsrfun
4 comments 3 months ago by gsw
7 comments 3 months ago by factsrfun
3 comments 3 months ago by agkaiser
1 comments 4 months ago by agkaiser
1 comments 4 months ago by grapes
2 comments 4 months ago by agkaiser
0 comments 4 months ago by agkaiser
4 comments 4 months ago by agkaiser
2 comments 5 months ago by rachelodell
2 comments 8 months ago by gsw
2 comments 12 months ago by factsrfun
5 comments 2 years ago by agkaiser
Nevermind the media. I know my truth and what I believe in and what I am fighting for. I will rely on my fellow protesters. We don't need the media. We have eachother. The 1% have the wealth and power. The 99% have eachother.
they do tell the truth but the truth about things nobody cares about or anything that really matter. true journalists would be banging down the doors of the international bankers that control the entire planet through dictatorship. but we the people can tell the truth and here is something that nobody has the guts say. http://www.radiokazoo.net/OPV/
As much as i would love to make our media " tell the truth" we can't. It's freedom of speech and they are allowed to say what they want. Only way to fight back is to educate yourself and fact check.
You are either a mindless drone that blindly accepts what ( insert talking head ) says or you are aware and can figure out what is B.S and what isn't.
Exactly!
Try reading this some time:
“ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ”
Of course, our Founding Fathers were both unaware of the media juggernauts that would come to rule our society and were operating under the assumption that the doctrine of the Freedom of Speech and of the Press would be applied politically, for goodness' sake, and not for entertainment's or profit's sake.
yep. we need a law immediately. Furthermore, can we pass a law that prohibits uneducated people from participating in voting?
Actually, our Founding Fathers operated under that principle.
Most Americans couldn't vote in our early years.
true. and certain races were slaves. Women weren't allowed to vote. Maybe you couldn't see through my sarcasm... there cannot be restrictions on free speech. Absolutely not.
No, I got your sarcasm. You didn't get my irony.
I'm saying our Founding Fathers were often wrong and could have been wrong with the Constitution. Why not? They did prefer slavery over freedom when it was convenient to them, after all.
You shouldn't pick and choose how to view our Founding Fathers and the history of our Constitution (it did supplant the failed Articles of Confederation, after all--so we know their word isn't taken from the immutable and eternal words of God).
I am not picking and choosing. I fervently believe in the US Constitution. As a strict constitutionalist... I don't delve in the semantics of 'what if they were wrong?'
Ah, so you're just fooling with me, then. I didn't get the joke. It's hard to notice trolls these days.
yes, my first post was sarcasm. To clarify, I completely support free speech... and absolutely do not think we should censor the media or personal opinion.
I do not believe that we should restrict voting for anyone.
No, I meant you're just fooling with me when you said, "I don't delve in the semantics of 'what if they were wrong?'"
As an optimist, I don't believe anyone would willingly and unquestioningly follow a set of doctrines they knew to be written by opportunists and slave-holding hypocrites.
I have yet to read a document so fundamental, pivotal, and as amazing as the US Constitution. I am a believer. I think we are all blessed with the document... The caliper of men involved with the writing of that document, I doubt we will ever have an assembly of such men at one time ever again.
Then you must not read much.
no, I am well read. In terms of a document that provides the framework for a government... there is no other comparison.
Is the Articles of Confederation a good comparison? Just about the same people worked on that, and it was repealed because it wasn't very good.
I guess the question is gadfly... do you think we need a new constitution in the United States? If the answer is yes, I'm sorry.. I don't agree.
Don't become a victim of nationalistic propaganda. Learn about the actual History of our Constitution--who wrote it and why? What were the results?
You'll actually find early examples in our government where president John Adams persecuted individuals for their so-called Freedom of Speech (i.e. the Alien and Sedition Acts).
I am not a victim... I choose to spend my time focusing on the overarching intent of the Constitution, while overlooking small historical hiccups that offer no precedence to the intent of the document.
John Adams helped write that document and actively subverted the so-called intent of it. So did George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion. Small historical hiccups? You ignore reality, dude.
The Constitution intentionally left certain things vague (such as who is actually allowed to vote) so that the Founding Fathers could abuse that vagueness. Why else would we need amendments that allow women and ALL men of a certain age to be allowed to vote?
The fact that this person readily agreed with your sarcasm was HILARIOUS.
Repealing the First Amendment is unrealistic and if you try then your opponents will use that against you.
I didn't say we should repeal the First Amendment. I said we should use it as it was intended.
The First Amendment was intended partly to guarantee freedom of the press. And freedom of speech. Read it.
I read it. You have to look at it historically, from the time it was written.
You also have to look at the way the notion of Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech have been historically bastardized to pursue anti-American goals.
yes. we should probably pass a law requiring it. immediately.
freedom of speech sucks sometimes but that's what makes us american
There ought to be a law.