Journalism professor
Jay Rosen has retired from NYU to join a non-profit that has the purpose of training content creators how to do better news reporting. I am a bit uncertain about how even good news reporting distributed through social media contents with the wealth generating algorithms. In other words, do we have a creation problem or a control and distribution problem with news?
#From an originalist perspective, what is "the press" as stated in
the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution? I think it is obvious that which exists today is
not like "the press" in the late 18th century, which is why I think originalism is flawed. I can imagine the current SCOTUS saying that the first amendment freedom of the press doesn't apply to CBS News because it is not "the press."
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- I am reading Thomas Zimmer's essay about Russell Vought that I think correctly states what is happening in the United States. The MAGA project is the destruction of the United States that they view as already been destroyed. In their view this is the third American Revolution, the second American Revolution started with the New Deal and culminated in Obama's election. I think in order to fight against this I think more attention needs to be put on the question of what comes after the U.S. government is entirely destroyed.#
- Rooted in this question is the reality that these people only place value in freedom for themselves, freedom is not for their opponents. Democracy, including the U.S. Republican one, allows the possibility of one's opponents gaining power and therefore impeding upon their freedom. Consequently, Democracy is flawed and the only way to assure their freedom is a dictator. The form of what is in place may have the appearance all one thinks of about the United States, a Congress, President, Supreme Court, but for that structure to remain there must be guarantee the opposition can never gain power. #
- Consider the current government shutdown, doesn't it feel different to you? The difference is that the current Republicans behind the shutdown do not fear the voters, they don't fear not being re-elected, because they believe so long as the fall in line with the MAGA project they will continue to have a share of power.#
- Of course, anyone who understands what is going on ought to be sober enough to know that when everything relies on human feelings rather than laws sooner or later you can, and likely will, become the opposition to that person. Marjorie Taylor Green might being finding this out right now.#