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Common Dreams reports
As President Donald Trump continues to behave bizarrely and erratically--attacking his own attorney general, launching into a political tirade during a speech to Boy Scouts, bringing his 11-year-old son into the burgeoning Russia controversy--a professional association of psychoanalysts is telling its members to drop the so-called Goldwater Rule and comment publicly on the president's state of mind if they find reason to do so.
The Goldwater Rule was formally included in the American Psychiatric Association's "Principles of Medical Ethics" following the 1964 presidential campaign, during which a magazine editor was sued for running an article in which mental health professionals gave their opinions on [Republican] presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's psychiatric state. The rule deems public comments by psychiatrists on the mental health of public officials without consent "unethical".
In a recent email to its 3,500 members, the American Psychoanalytic Association "told its members they should not feel bound by" the Goldwater Rule, which some have characterized as a "gag rule", STAT's Sharon Begley reports.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @09:36PM (2 children)
The greatest power that the media has is its willingness to IGNORE a story.
Stories that interest me, which I can read in alt-media, don't make it into Lamestream Media.
These are typically items that are Science-based or would reveal people-unfriendly gov't actions.
The usual suspects don't want to lose their "access" to USA.gov, so they won't cover stories that cast the Oligarchy in a negative light.
In particular, PROTESTS against gov't and corporation don't get covered.
Items that are critical of corporations' malfeasance are avoided.
(For-profit media doesn't want to lose the advertising revenue from those corporations, so they won't cast them in a bad light.)
By the time ATSC had replaced NTSC in 2009, I had determined that it wasn't worthwhile to invest in any new TeeVee equipment.
Media consolidation (Reaganomics) and media's increasingly mercenary ethos had put me off of what they were offering.
I heard a statistic that there was just 15 minutes of airtime on TeeVee last year on the topic of Global Warming.
That's not per-outlet; that's the entirety of TeeVee.
This is why I use the term "Lamestream Media".
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @09:55PM
I agree, 15 minutes is FAR TOO MUCH. I read a tweet that said it was a Chinese hoax. That settles it.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 30 2017, @08:51PM
Just had a funny idea.. The broadcast spectrum is limited. So let the public vote for which channels or networks that will get new permits to use the spectrum or slot in a mux-stream. That should keep them on their toes. And the radio spectrum IS a commons.