OT: Words fail me

[Atrocities]

I would really embrace a few restrictions on the media though. Not on the 1st amendment, but on the media itself. I would be for limiting what they could say without having facts, I would before making them accountable when they make mistakes or broadcast / publish, wrongful information that harms people, and require them to prove the truth in what they say. Words do hurt people, and they do harm the society as a whole when they are spoken in deliberately to mislead. I would be for protecting peoples right to privacy and putting an end to the stocker photographers that plague the popular Hollywood crowd. I would make it a law that if the story is BS, that it must contain a disclaimer saying that the story is a fraud as to protect the person to whom the story was written about.

Enough with the media being used as a propaganda machine. Make it a law that if the media is reporting news, it must be neutral and un-bias, and I mean truly unbiased, no more Liberal CBS B.S. or fair and balanced lies from FOX. Make the news truly about just being the news, and if they wish to defer, make it a requirement that they state the purpose of the deferment. IE that they are stating an opinion not based on fact, or they are drawing a conclusion based on such and such facts. If these rules would have been in place than Dan Rather would not have been humiliated by the fake documents last year, and OJ would have been convicted.

Additionally, the news media SHOULD never be allowed into a courtroom. They should be BARED from reporting about a criminal case while it is under investigation or facing court proceedings. I am of firm belief that a lot of people have been cheated out of justice because they were convicted or cleared in the court of public opinion long before they ever stepped foot into a court room. The media has NOT RIGHT to ruin a person’s life just to make copy. Look at what they did to that Richard Jewels guy a few years back. They all but convicted that poor bastard for the Olympic park bombings and it turned out he was completely innocent.

That is only one example of how the media has used its unbridled power of opinion, and not fact, to destroy someone’s life.

We need checks and balances in the system to prevent fraudulent and deliberate misuse of the 1st amendment without limiting or restricting the amendment itself.

Remember when the 1st amendment was written our founding fathers couldn't even begin to conceive Television or radio.

News Papers are held to a higher standard than the news media like CBS or Fox. So why not establish laws that protect 1. a person’s privacy, 2. their right to due process, and 3. their dignity.

How many people have been wrongfully convicted because of the feeding frenzy wrought by the media? Hell the media even tries to influence elections by telling people that X party has won 30 minutes after the polls open so Y party should just stay home. They tell us what we should believe, they tell us what is right and wrong even though we know that what they are telling us is a load of crap. They force feed ridicules over hyped news stories to use on a daily basis without ever really giving us any news. They are now, more often than not, heavily slanted with a political agenda that is as complex to figure out, as it is easy to see.

I mean we all knew that Dan Rather and Ted Turner hate the Republicans, and love the Democrats, and vice versa for Denis Miller and Bill O'Riely.

Don't get me wrong, I like entertainment, I just don't like entrainment posing as news. Especially when it destroys a person or their right to due process.