Background checks for journalists

Inky_Wretch · Feb 20, 2013

terrier said:

Rush has a good idea, I'm all for it, provided radio talk hosts undergo the same mental health screening.
Well, guess I just ended that conversation.
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Obviously you hate sports talk radio, especially local shows in SEC country.

Bradley Guire · Feb 20, 2013

MisterCreosote said:

Agreed.

Back to the subject at hand, I think if journalism is ever going to regain traction in society, maybe a hiring standard higher than "Oh, you'll work double-time for $8 an hour and no benefits? You're hired!" should be applied.
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Thanks for the laugh.

Mark2010 · Feb 21, 2013

Dick Whitman said:

93Devil said:

DW, if you are a felon can you sit on a jury? Vote?

There is some degree of background checking going on to all of us when you really think about it.
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Good point about juries.

I think where Rush Limbaugh's argument falls apart is that there really aren't any particular rights that journalists have that every day citizens do not in terms of exercising the right to free speech. Free speech and free press are pretty much one and the same, doctrinally. So there seemingly does not exist the kind of split in the law between the two groups to begin saddling the exercise of one with restrictions and not the other. This would be particularly difficult in the era of the democratization of media.
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The way things are today, anyone with access to a computer ---- hell, maybe even one of those fancy phones --- can publish a blog or post nonsense on YouTube. So what's the difference?

This was just the latest retarded idea by Mr. Limbaugh that isn't going anywhere. Funny part is that, if it ever did, it may well be he and his moronic "ditto heads" (does he still use that term?) who would be deemed mentally unstable and denied access to the airwaves.

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