Note to Reporters: If Bush Admin Can Threaten NYT-They Can Threaten You

[kpete]

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Hey Media: That's what the communists did
by Joe in DC - 6/29/2006 08:20:00 AM


Last night, I watched Paula Zahn interview Susan Milligan, a reporter with the Boston Globe who also chairs the committee on credentials for House and Senate correspondents about the NY Times smear.

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Milligan gave the answer that every reporter needs to hear:

But the important thing here is the principle, is that we don't let Congress tell the press what they can and cannot publish. You know, I -- I lived in Eastern Europe for five years during the 1990s and reported there. And I know what happens in countries where the government tries to suppress or intimidate or censor the press, because that's what the communists did to my friends.

Yes, that's what communists did -- not what nations with freedom of the press do.

Note to reporters: If the Bush administration can threaten the NY Times with espionage, they can do the same thing to you. You all reported on the Times story. Does that make you all accomplices to treason?

STOP treating this attack on the NY Times like it's some normal story where both sides deserve a fair hearing. It's not.

Has the media in America been so emasculated by the Bush administration that they are not willing to defend the First Amendment?

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/hey-media-thats-what-communists-did.html

[tanyev]

1. Has the media been so emasculated...?

Yes. Yes, they have.