My own dissenting view is that MoveOn is part of the problem and emphatically not part of the solution. In 2004 they filed a complaint with the FTC arguing that Fox's slogan of “fair and balanced” was fraudulent advertising.
Let me repeat that: they asked the government to decide whether journalism was fair and balanced. The government. Here I thought the First Amendment was a big sign written in twelve foot high flaming letters signed by the Framers telling us “do not under any circumstances allow the government to control the press,” and here’s MoveOn shrugging their shoulders and saying “hey, times change, Faux News has got to be stopped somehow, right.”
I have gone over literally dozens of scenarios in my head trying to figure out what possessed them. All of the scenarios end with the same conclusion: these people are too deluded to be taken seriously.
I am not an enemy of progressives, but I am loudly and proudly an enemy of MoveOn.
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Date: 2008-04-19 08:40 pm (UTC)Let me repeat that: they asked the government to decide whether journalism was fair and balanced. The government. Here I thought the First Amendment was a big sign written in twelve foot high flaming letters signed by the Framers telling us “do not under any circumstances allow the government to control the press,” and here’s MoveOn shrugging their shoulders and saying “hey, times change, Faux News has got to be stopped somehow, right.”
I have gone over literally dozens of scenarios in my head trying to figure out what possessed them. All of the scenarios end with the same conclusion: these people are too deluded to be taken seriously.
I am not an enemy of progressives, but I am loudly and proudly an enemy of MoveOn.