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posted by martyb on Friday April 05 2019, @10:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the first-we-need-an-ethics-board-for-politicians dept.

Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board':

Six Republican state representatives in Georgia have moved to create an "ethics board" for journalists that would require news organizations to provide copies of pictures and audio and video recordings of interviews to subjects who request them or risk civil penalty.

The cost of meeting those requests would be paid by the news organizations.

The proposed legislation, House Bill 734, titled the "Ethics in Journalism Act," was sponsored Tuesday by Rep. Andy Welch, who represents the city of McDonough.

The bill would create a board of media professionals and academics that would produce"a canon of ethics" and "develop a voluntary accreditation process in journalism ethics," which would also allow for the investigation and sanctioning of journalists.

This bill isn't really about local news publishers (although they would be censored too) this is about censoring CNN which is headquartered in Atlanta.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:16AM (19 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:16AM (#825557) Journal

    Do you just not hear it when Pompeo starts spouting Rapture-readiness or something? He's trying to begin the battle of Armageddon.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:26AM (18 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:26AM (#825621) Journal

    And?

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:11AM (17 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:11AM (#825638) Journal

      "And?" Seriously? It doesn't alarm you that one of the highest cabinet members of the most powerful country on the planet is literally trying to end the world? No, I suppose it wouldn't, since he's "on your team." You blinkered, tribal fucking moron.

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      • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:32AM (16 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:32AM (#825647) Journal

        Half of the world's population believes in a final battle to end all battles. You don't want them to be represented? Only your team should be represented? Got it. O'Crazio Cortez doesn't scare you? How about Beatoff O'Cork?

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 07 2019, @10:03PM (2 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 07 2019, @10:03PM (#825960) Journal

          ...Jesus titty-fucking Christ, are you serious?! I'm supposed to be okay with these people wanting the end of the world because half the human race is deluded? Do you understand that an idea does not go from a bad one to a good one just because a lot of people agree with it? That wasn't even rhetorical, Runaway; I am now firmly convinced there is something mentally wrong with you. No one sane would even think to try that as a gambit.

          And hell no AOC and BoR don't scare me anywhere near as much as that lot does. I disagree with them on some things, but if it came down to them versus literally any Republican, ever, at all, that we have in the current field, they would have my vote, and that's on policy, not on tribal politics.

          Tribal politics. That's ALL you have, and boy does it show. You would destroy the world, literally destroy it, for your tribe. People like you are why we are in this mess.

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          • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 08 2019, @01:45PM (1 child)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 08 2019, @01:45PM (#826145) Journal

            You do know what a self fulfilling prophecy is, right?

            Oh, don't blame my tribe, so blindly. You're a member of the tribe that wants to destroy my tribe. What did I tell you about hatred? Obviously, it didn't soak in. You can't start destroying, and then magically turn it off when you think that it's enough.

            If/when you've destroyed my tribe, you had best suck up real good to O'Crazio and O'Cork and their tribe. Because they'll be looking for you and any other potential dissenters.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:07AM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:07AM (#826473) Journal

              You're beyond dialoguing with any longer, sunk permanently in your own delusions. You're screaming at some kind of phantom image of me that stands eight feet tall and has snake-pupil eyes and two rows of blood-dripping fangs, or some other similar such nightmare. How am I supposed to talk to you if you've decided I'm a monster?

              I've already said I don't hate you, but rather pity you, and that pity only gets stronger the more I see posts like this from you. But because I also know how your kind of personality works, I understand that nothing will change you until you hit rock bottom. You have to suffer in specific ways that are directly relevant to your political positions before those positions will change. And I hope you do. Not for its own sake, but so you can start rebuilding your humanity.

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        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DutchUncle on Monday April 08 2019, @01:54PM (12 children)

          by DutchUncle (5370) on Monday April 08 2019, @01:54PM (#826147)

          If "represented" means "STARTING the final battle to make sure that they get to be raptured by it, while everyone else gets to die horribly", then no, thanks, I'd prefer that they not be represented. Occasio-Cortez doesn't scare me any more than any other overly-idealistic young person who will moderate as the learn to negotiate the practicalities of what can be done in the real world. If you want some REAL radical liberal thinking, go read the Gospels, which are 90% ignored.

          • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 08 2019, @02:27PM (11 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 08 2019, @02:27PM (#826170) Journal

            That's kinda funny. I'd rather Moslems weren't represented in Washington, so they can push their Sharia law on all the rest of us. But - no one cares what I'd rather. Everyone gets a vote, including Moslems, including the sons and daughters of illegal aliens (once they reach age 18), including liberals, including conservatives, and oh yeah, including Christians.

            I will also point out that Christians aren't the only bunch who believes in Armageddon, or Megido, or Ragnarok, or The Final Battle. In fact, Christians make up considerably less than half of the group.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:11AM (10 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:11AM (#826474) Journal

              You can always leave the country. Maybe hop the border into Canada? What will they call you then, a snow-back? Will you steal a job from a good honest Canadian worker?

              Only half-joking. If you hate this place so bad, go somewhere else that aligns more with your values. Maybe Ukraine?

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              • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:33AM (9 children)

                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:33AM (#826488) Journal

                It's you who is filled with hate. Yeah, I read your other post. "I already said I don't hate you" blah blah blah. Uh-huh, you can say whatever, but you're the person who wants to stab a number of people in the gonads, among other things.

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:59AM (8 children)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:59AM (#826507) Journal

                  So? Everyone gets angry sometimes. Point still stands: you've disappeared into a mental Hell of your own making. You see monsters where there are none, and you don't see them where they are plainly staring you in the face. I keep saying that "Hell is other people" is wrong, 100% wrong, and this is one small earthly manifestation of why.

                  Keep being tormented by eight-foot venomous snake-faced me if you want to. That's your prerogative.

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                  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:19AM (7 children)

                    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:19AM (#826519) Journal

                    Point still stands. I've never thrown a tantrum, and described methods of mutilating your genitals - nor has any other member of Soylent done so. You are in a class all your own, young lady. You are filled with hate, and you fantasize about mutilating the genitals of your opponents, so they can roast in hell for significant parts of eternity, or some such.

                    That moral high ground that you pretend to stand on happens to be located inside of a cesspool. You need to do some serious self examination.

                    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:09AM (6 children)

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:09AM (#826551) Journal
                      For the about 9000th time...no one spends eternity or even close to it "in Hell." Not even people like Hitler, though it will likely take him thousands or tens of thousands of years to finish experiencing the existential blowback of the sheer amount of pain and suffering he was responsible for.

                      If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. That's not hate; that's pity. You need to suffer to learn, and suffer you will, here or hereafter. I wish it weren't so, but it is so.

                      Know what hate is? Your cool, calm, collected willingness to sacrifice, what was it, "5 million conservatives" to kill "20 million liberals?" Know what hate is? Your damn near direct quote of the various white supremacist mantras about making sure your kids aren't "turned into slaves" in order to "make brown and black people happy."

                      You miss something very important: hate isn't "hot" most of that time. That is, anger, wrath, and vengeance run "hot;" hate, real hate, runs as cold as the black void of interstellar space, and as indifferent. Your...strategic calculus, shall we say, concerning your Civil War 2.0 masturbation fantasies is a perfect example.

                      Do I need to copypasta that unhinged rant of yours AGAIN? Seems like I do. Here it be:

                      Alright then -

                      A civil war will be uglier than most liberals have ever dreamed. Maybe uglier than the war-happy conservative capitalists have dreamed, as well.

                      But, it might be better than allowing the progressives to have control. The so-called left is hardly any more left than the R's are, but they are strongly into authoritarianism. That left makes me look silly as hell with my claims of being an authoritarian. The REAL difference between me, and them, is the legitimacy of authority. If I recognize an authority as being legitimate, then I respect it. If I don't recognize an authority as legitimate, I fight it.

                      Your left wants to create it's own authority by force. There is no legitimacy to either the force, or the authority which they desire. None.

                      But, if the right stands by, and watches the "left" proceed, it's possible that the progressives could win. Chances are slim, but the possibility exists.

                      Yes, I'd rather see twenty million dead liberals lying in the streets, than to see their progressive heros taking over this country. And, I'll willingly sacrifice five million dead conservatives and independents to put a stop to the progressives.

                      The tree of life must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots, from time to time.

                      And, welcome to reality, where most important decisions by nations are settled by force. As it has been for tens of thousands of years, so it will be for tens of thousands of years into the future.

                      Have you ever considered the dystopias portrayed in much of science fiction? Have you never imagined one of those dystopias, in which death is preferable to living? The dystopia being offered to us by the progressives is one in which a child can be punished, and branded for life, if he so much as notices that his own skin is not the same color as that of his teacher, or one of his class mates. In this computer age, any "deviant" behaviour will be documented, put into a database, and NEVER forgotten.

                      Progressives promise a number of things, which I fear, and despise, with their racial inequality ranking high. "People of color" vs "white and Asian". It's already real, it has made it into headlines. Follow that to it's logical conclusion - if you're brown, or black, you get a leg up in education, employment, in everything. If you're white, or Asian, you get shit on, and you're lucky if you can ever get a job cleaning septic tanks, or collecting garbage.

                      The party, as well as the progressives, have forgotten Martin Luther King, who had a dream. They've abandoned his dream. Today, they don't want equality, they want vengeance.

                      And, I, for one, am not willing that my grandchildren should be cast into some third-rate citizen role, to make those brown or black people happy. I side with King - my great grandchildren should compete with black, white, brown, and Asian for their place in life. And, the best man/woman for the job should win the job.

                      Political correctness? I've fought that bullshit since I first heard of it. It was a Soviet construction - if you were in good graces with the party, then you were politically correct. Fuck PC. Seriously, just fuck PC. Progressives promise to enslave my descendants, at the expense of brown and black people. Just fuck them.

                      Twenty million dead progressives? Make it fifty million - it's all the same to me. A future with slavery in it looks pretty damned bleak, no matter whether it's my descendants, or yours, or whoever's. We had a war, ~150 years ago, over a number of issues, including slavery. Today, "liberals" want to go back and explore slavery. Kill 'em all, and let God sort them out.

                      The bunch of dumb bastards in charge of the Democrat party need to pull their heads out of their asses, BEFORE they spark that civil war. Once the first few shots are fired, there will be no mercy.

                      THERE'S your fuckin' hate, Runaway, you God-damned hypocrite. I will never, ever, let you live this down.

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                      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:32PM (5 children)

                        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:32PM (#826707) Journal

                        Grow The Fuck Up.

                        You don't get to spout your hatred in one thread, then somehow, magically explain it away in another. If you want to play nonsensical school girl games, maybe you should join a school girl's forum. Play your games over there, and when you come back over here, act like an adult.

                        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:51PM (4 children)

                          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:51PM (#826723) Journal

                          Look at you getting all triggered! Sorry, but you let that shit out in a moment of either weakness, greater-than-usual stupidity, or massive arrogance, and I'm never going to let you forget it. Any time you think you're gonna try and fool people into believing you're even halfway human any longer, I'm going to trot that fucker out at full length and let people judge for themselves.

                          If you can't handle it here, if you can't handle me, then run away crying like the little boy you still are at the age of 62. How does it feel to lose to a "school girl?"

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                          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:02PM (3 children)

                            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:02PM (#826738) Journal

                            And, every time you bring it up, you prove again that you are incapable of understanding any of it. Does that come from only being 92nd percentile? FFS, I'd rather be talking to a 60th percentile, because I wouldn't EXPECT him/her to understand jack shit.

                            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:50PM (2 children)

                              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:50PM (#826999) Journal

                              I dunno, Runaway, that shit's pretty clear on its own, and doubly so to anyone keeping up with your post history. I'd say I understand it plenty well, and you've been backed so far into a corner that you're gonna try and brazen your way out of it by pretending you didn't actually say or mean it.

                              Really, it's amazing how much you resemble the classic RWA/narcissist caught in his own trap. You have the exact same observed pattern: "I didn't say that. And if I did, you didn't understand it. And if you understood it, you're wrong for not agreeing with it. And if you're not wrong for disagreeing, you're just wrong because fuck you."

                              Keep it up, Runaway. Keep posting. Keep exposing yourself in public. I will chase your fat retarded inbred ass around like Tisiphone herself with a whip made out of history.

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                              • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 10 2019, @01:25AM (1 child)

                                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 10 2019, @01:25AM (#827200) Journal

                                Jesus H. Christ - nowhere have I ever denied any part of my post. Exposing myself, right.

                                What's being exposed here is you obsession over me.

                                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:04AM

                                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:04AM (#827209) Journal

                                  You keep doubling down on your horrifying nihilistic stupidity. I tell you over and over again that you damage yourself this way more than anything I could say or do to you short of actually introducing you to my pet prybar at high velocity.

                                  And. You. Keep. Doing. It. A normal human being with a functioning conscience and at least a sliver of a soul might try and mitigate some of the damage done by that huge wall of text. You? You stand proudly behind it. You glory in it, like a two year old who thinks his overfull diaper is some sort of personal achievement.

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