Posted
10:50 AM
by Gene
SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....In a conversation not long ago, the president of a major university asked me about the various scandals haunting the mainstream media: Why can't the news media get their house in order? he wondered.
I mumbled the usual platitudes about over-eager reporters, overstretched editors and stressed-out executives under immense pressure to hold their print and television audiences against new forms of competition. And sensing that we were headed toward a debate about whether the media's problems were severe enough to require some sort of oversight, I cited the clause in the First Amendment of the Constitution that prohibits the government from making any laws "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
"Well, why not self-regulation?" the educator asked.BECAUSE THE LAST TIME YOU BONEHEADS DISCUSSED IT YOU COULDN'T AGREE TO THE RULES.