ThinkTanked's Blog

One of the intents of the First Ammendment was to keep the media and government separate. The Founders wanted the media to be watchdogs for the people.
If the government does the media's job, then what they report will not be factual or the truth.
The government has censored the media in the past and there were complaints.
The government has released false information by their own admission. Why should they be trusted?
Anyone who will allow the government to control the media is a big-government liberal socialist.
The only thing worse is someone who believes the government should do the media's job. That would be Fascism.

Anytime the government adds, or whatever you want to call it, to the free media, they take control of the media.
Yes, the media can challenge what the government puts out, but if the government is controling the sources, there is not much chance of that happening.
That is what is happening now. Only government approved reporters are allowed into press meetings. If a reporter finds information that challenges the government story, he is attacked and he is jailed until he reveals his sources. Then his sources are punished. That is not a free press.
The Pentagon started the embedded reporter program. Many reporters who did that and left the program said they were pressured into reporting the news favorable to the Pentagon. There were comments about being left on the battlefield. That is not free press.

"Anytime the government adds, or whatever you want to call it, to the free media, they take control of the media."

WRONG.... If that was true than the founders would have held the press accountable for the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth in free press.

The reporter you speak of was found to be working with the enemy, if I have the right one here... zbert maybe you better link a story or source to that then.

I remember when a platoon of seals on a real world operation inserted into a position and when they came out of the water and onto the beach, reporters with cameras and lights rushed them! Free press comes with responsibility and judgement. When that is thrown away in the name of bias or sensationalism, then you are risking lives.

Libs here are going to try to skirt around this issue, but your "interpritation" of freedom of press ain't makin it. Its just simple... Pentagon gave the media every chance to report accurately and fairly, and the media chose not to, so they simply are putting it before a forum on their own. Nothing wrong with that other than it exposes the mainstream media's agenda over truth policy.

Well because bloggers typically don't answer to anything but their own ethical practices, we can call someone out or toss political correctness out the window. Remember it was bloggers that caught CBS in RatherGate because the dared to question face value....

anonymous diplomats? Not sure what you are refering to. Just like some bloggers can delete entire topics when the facts pour in and rebut their topic. (like vaccines and mercury for example...) I realize some need a place to vent their frustrations, but do it in a fashion that speaks to factual evidence and truth.

Fair enough...

Lets see if you can bring forth a topic in its entire balance of facts...

NY TIMES and the Party of Surrender once again exposing secrets ehh. Who let this one out, Levin or Rockerfeller?? I garantee you it was one of the two, and has been every time since this war began.

Here's a little fact for your thinktank to ponder, AQ has chosen to fight this war using the media and propoganda.

Should we sit around and do nothing? Once again focus on almost losing in Iraq in 2004-2006 while were in the process (2008) of winning.

FreePress my ass, who funds them? Would you care to dig that up and include it in your blog? Another Soros agent is what I see in the link. More subversion from within.

Reform through education should alarm folks, that's a hidden in plain sight confesion to indoctrinating people. Only an idiot would attach themselves to that.

I know I'm not the only one who views the words of non-partisan and media as oil and water. They don't mix unless manufactured to do so.

Abunai, you keep defending your big, out of control government. You defend the imprisonment of a reporter after the courts said there was no case and demanded his release.

How can anybody be more of a leftist than you? By your own words you are a socialist. You should know exactly what the left knows since it is what you believe.

The Founders did not want the government to interfere with the media.

Yeah that does seem fishy when a group of reporters catch Navy SEALS off guard. In reality the SEALS would have noticed the reporters on the beach long before they ever approached the beach.

I keep wondering about that, too.
The WTC was hit many stories above the ground and you hear stories about people watching it happen.
Flight 800 was almost up to the altitude it needed to cross the Atlantic and people saw the missile hit it.
The plane that hit the Pentagon was feet above several major highways at rush hour as well as residences and businesses, but nobody saw the approach? I hear about someone who talked to someone who saw it, but I have never talked to anybody who actuallt saw it first-hand.
Traffic in that area is at a standstill at that time. There should have been thousands of witnesses. Where are they?

Well no TT.. Those SEALs could have actually just snatched up the media crew if they wanted... But interesting that you assert that they didn't see them.... The reporters and media rushed them yes... but only after the SEALS came out into the open...

Really TT.. how "simple" you try to make your point...

zbert.. who said the beach was safe? Who assumes that they actually made contact with ALL of the men? LOL! Its OK... the community is used to people having all the answers when it comes to spec ops....

but to topic: zbert..Who says the Founders didn't want the govt. to interfere with the media? Interfere? that not what is happening, they are simply ADDING the parts of the story that are being left out.

Show me who has reported on how many people have electricity, potable water, schools, homes, medicine, etc. Media for the last 5 years only doing a ONE SIDED body count and showing smoking holes in the road! Exactly WHO is being irresponsible with reporting?

Just because the media chooses not to report it does not mean its not allowed to be touched by anyone else!

It not like Roosevelt who did as you suggest and sensored the media, opened mail, blacked out personal coorespondance, etc. and then provided his own film. The media is still free to report as they see fit, its just now the military is going to make official reports available OUTSIDE of media's sensorship for a change...

Again.. if the media was truely unbiased,and fair and non-partial, we wouldn't even be discussing this would we.

I definitely see a pattern alright, and I assure you the American people are not going to like the outcome when our Nations economy collapses and we lose our sovereignty.

I know you're in denial about our economy from your other posts, I'm just curious to see how worse it has to get before you start blaming Liberals for the depression caused by the fruitless conflicts your beloved administration pours money into.

And before you starting screaming terrorism and radical Islam, you will have to convince me that our military is definitely incapable of tracking 3 commercial airliners, I'll be nice and give you the benefit of the doubt that the first plane caught us by surprise and we didn't know it's intentions.

LOL! No value at all! Straight out of the conspiracy nuts and the bull BLEEP aka Rosie O'Donnel. Really TT talk about desperate...

Here some for you then:

Why when the USS Sullivans attemted bombing in Yemen did Clinton STILL force our ship's to refuel there until finally the USS Cole was hit?

How come Clinton traded not demanding a chance to question the men that blew up Kohbar Towers in Saudia Arabia, and take a large donation to his library instead?

How come upon accidently bombing a Chinese Embassy because information and updated mapping was not shared through Clinton's Wall did he not do anything to fix the problem thus allowing 9/11 to go down.

Why take 140 Billion from Defense budget and put it into social programs and then expect the military to operate an even higher tempo?

Who let Obama slip through his fingers multiple times?

Who traded a pointless Airline security report for donations to the DNC by the industry, and worked it out between Daschell's FAA/Lobbiest wife?

Yea... lets play this game shall we...