Re:How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion
by xamuel on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:54PM
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Gosh, thanks. I never cease to be amazed at my own ignorance. So I guess that makes all the rhetoric about "the fourth branch of government" even sillier than I already thought it was. (If journalism were to be a fourth branch, then it ought to have some "checks and balances", but right now it seems to have about as many "checks and balances" as Xerxes the God-King of Persia...)
Re:How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion
by Nasrudith on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:04PM
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Well of course it lacks checks and balances - it doesn't have any legislative power. To pretend otherwise is to conflate state power with personal rights. States don't have rights.
Generally, the courts have fairly consistently held that there is no constitutional differentiation between journalists and non-journalists in protection of free speech.
Special privileges and rights for the press are granted by means other than the constitution.