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44Brent

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Bear 45/70 wrote
The 1st Amendment rights were never intended for the Media, only the citizens and the media aren't citizens, they are a business that have a job to do, not present their personal biases to us. They stole the the 1st Amendment rightsalong the line.
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1st Amendment:

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.

Bear45/70, before writing something like that, perhaps you ought to actually READ the Bill of Rights before making a fool out of yourself.
 
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antispam540 wrote:
The media has every right to free speech that we do, although they are liable for slander/libel AFAIK just like everyone else (well, like any other business/corp).
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The press is even able to skirt libel/slander laws as long as there is "absence of malice". There facts don't even have to be correct as long as they can claim they weren't published maliciously (knowing they were wrong but went ahead intending to do harm to the target subject).
 
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