Tuesday, May 17, 2005

...Newsweek

This is a bit of a sticky situation, and frankly, it scares the crap out of me. But not for the reasons that people might think.

I help to moderate a forum intended for serious discussion on a gaming site that I have long been a contributer to (yup, I'm on staff at a gaming journalism site...it's not nearly as exciting as that sentence makes it sound, my job is just to keep people from trolling a forum). I might bring it up every now and then. For those of you from Brunchma reading this, it's similar to The Library, but with a bit more...well, a bit wider range of right leaning opinions. Yeah, that's a good way to put it.

Anyway. Newsweek, which is what this is about. And what scares me about it. On that forum, people are using this kerfuffle as a reason to argue that the media should have some level of government oversite and regulation. Government oversite and regulation.

Now, the problem that I have with this is a rather obvious one, a single sentence, a handful of comma deliniated clauses (with an Oxford comma *glee*), a brief 45 words. Yeah, I'm being poetic and overstating, but it's the First damned Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The very clause that says that the press is a seperate entity from the government, just as churches are. The press, the grand high alter of American democracy, the fact that the government can be questioned, can be brought to task, and is answerable. The very press that helped break Watergate wide open. And now, people are so willing to want to impose government regulation where government regulation does not belong. Government oversite over a portion of American life that should be a black box to government. Felt so important that it was put first among all rights that Americans enjoy.

And because of this, because of the perception of some that there is a concerted effort by the media to promote liberalism, and bring down The Administration, that they want it reigned in, they want it muzzled. And that just scares the hell out of me. It terrifies me that people are so willing to throw away the rights that were fought and died for, just because they feel that those rights are being used. I was going to lengthen that sentence, but that's the entire problem. These people are upset that others are using their rights.

You'll notice that I haven't gone into whether the story was true, or accurate, or fairly reported, because I don't think that matters to the situation at hand. This isn't an issue of what Newsweek got right, got wrong, or why it got it wrong. I have my own feelings along those lines, but to present them here takes away from the point that I'm trying to make. We can't allow rights to be stripped away because of mistakes, or because of partisan bickering.

I have no fear of America ever being taken down from outside of our borders. Fellow Americans are so much more of a threat to our Republic than any foreign forces will ever be.

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