David Mamet on free speech

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David Mamet: The media must not allow government to proscribe free speech
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
The so-called Fairness Doctrine, the enforcement of the doctrine that any broadcast medium, voicing one political opinion must voice another, dissenting opinion will be the beginning of the end of free speech. Here's why: Who is to say what is political opinion? The line between political opinion and reportage is so blurred now as to be almost indistinct. Should such a pernicious doctrine become widespread, energy will be devoted to persuading and inevitably suborning those authorities who seek to rule on any utterance.
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I love a liberal who comes to know conservative reason.

I wonder if he ran this by Chris Matthews on NBC, who announced his "job" is now to make the Obama presidency work.

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[nq:1]David Mamet: The media must not allow government to proscribe free speech I love a liberal who comes to know conservative reason.[/nq]
With all due respect, what **** you talk.
If anything, First Amendment issues have always been the pride of the liberal side of the citizenry, and that bastion of conservativism, the ACLU. You want to support David Mamet in this crusade? Then put your money where your mouth is: Send $100 to the ACLU.
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[nq:1]http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-mamet-the-media- must-not-allow-government-to-proscribe-free-speech-1024521.html http://tinyurl.com/5b2kgl David Mamet: The media must not allow government to proscribe free speech Wednesday, 19 November 2008 The ... ran this by Chris Matthews on NBC, who announced his "job" is now to make the Obama presidency work.

Um not to *** on your parade or anything or to pretend that you actually have any problem with something along the lines of reading comprehension, but Mamet is opposing the fairness doctrine.

That would mean that networks wouldn't have to present a "fair and balanced" view of the issues but could, in much the way that newspapers always have, assume a particular stance on issues liberal newspapers, conservative newspapers, liberal news channels, conservative news channels.
That's the position that the Fairness Doctrine, in principle, prevents in broadcast media, and which Mamet *opposes.*
In the world as Mamet would have it, there wouldn't be any problem with Chris Matthews' position, or someone taking the opposite position, or any position in between.
You have a free market of ideas broadcasters say what they want, people listen to what they want. Or they just turn it all off.

It's only the ostensible finite bandwith that provides the FCC with any basis at all for the regulation of content the presumption that they have the right to regulate and control broadcast content "in the public interest" as defined by them. That's what's given rise to the fairness doctrine, fines for "***" and nipple flashes and all the rest.
Not to mention why so many people spend so much more time watching cable TV where the FCC hasn't (so far) figured out any justification for digging in its little censoring fingers.
Man, do you even read the stuff you post?
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[nq:1]http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-mamet-the-media- must-not-allow-government-to-proscribe-free-speech-1024521.html http://tinyurl.com/5b2kgl David Mamet: The media must not allow government to proscribe free speech Wednesday, 19 November 2008 The ... ran this by Chris Matthews on NBC, who announced his "job" is now to make the Obama presidency work.

The US news media don't need a Fairness Doctrine, they need an Objectivity Doctrine.

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[nq:2]David Mamet: The media must not allow government to proscribe free speech I love a liberal who comes to know conservative reason.[/nq]
[nq:1]With all due respect, what **** you talk. If anything, First Amendment issues have always been the pride of the ... to support David Mamet in this crusade? Then put your money where your mouth is: Send $100 to the ACLU.[/nq]
Sorry, Alan, I'm not a dummy doper communist.
And David Mamet is now an avowed conservative.

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[nq:2]http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-mamet-the-media- must-not-allow-government-to-proscribe-free-speech-1024521.html http://tinyurl.com/5b2kgl David Mamet: The media must not allow ... "job" is now to make the Obama presidency work.

[nq:1]The US news media don't need a Fairness Doctrine, they need an Objectivity Doctrine.[/nq]
I'd just like to know who the master programmer is; you're assuming they're capable of independent thought.

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[nq:1]And David Mamet is now an avowed conservative.[/nq]
That's fine. He can call himself whatever he likes and I'll continue to pay attention to what he says and not what he calls himself.

Defending free speech is a great liberal cause, and Mamet, as a man of words, wants to defend his, and our, turf. Good for him. He can call himself a Martian for all I care.
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[nq:2]http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-mamet-the-media- must-not-allow-government-to-proscribe-free-speech-1024521.html http://tinyurl.com/5b2kgl David Mamet: The media must not allow ... "job" is now to make the Obama presidency work.

[nq:1]The US news media don't need a Fairness Doctrine, they need an Objectivity Doctrine.- Hide quoted text -[/nq]
Well, given that every human being's view of the world and of events is inevitably a subjective one, who exactly would we put in charge of enforcing this "Objectivity Doctrine?"
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[nq:2]The US news media don't need a Fairness Doctrine, they need an Objectivity Doctrine.- Hide quoted text -[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, given that every human being's view of the world and of events is inevitably a subjective one, who exactly would we put in charge of enforcing this "Objectivity Doctrine?"[/nq]
Well, no, that's just a pseudo-intellectual misuse of the word "objective." You're substituting its meaning in a metaphysical context into a journalistic context. In its journalistic context, objectivity means to report relevant news and facts with pure intentions, as free of political and personal-psycho-social-cultural biases as possible, and as free of ulterior agendas and motives as possible. It used to be a fundamental tenant of journalism 101.

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[nq:2]Well, given that every human being's view of the world ... would we put in charge of enforcing this "Objectivity Doctrine?"[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, no, that's just a pseudo-intellectual misuse of the word "objective." You're substituting its meaning in a metaphysical context into ... and as free of ulterior agendas and motives as possible. It used to be a fundamental tenant of journalism 101.[/nq]
I love it when people throw around $5 ideas and $10 words in an attempt to impress others with their erudition. They invariably get something wrong.
In your case it's "tenet" not "tenant."

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