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Rathergate: Mapes Knew Bush Volunteered for Vietnam

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Sharmuta8/27/2009 11:06:53 am PDT

re: #118 anotherindyfilmguy

But how many harmed by these “supposedly neutral and objective” (as they sell themselves to be) reporters/news organizations take up the sword of lawfare during/after the damage being done and sue them into oblivion for libel? We live in a free market society (or so I’m told) and if the lying scum being lying scum instead of either open about their bias or intentions became a fiscally fatal liability* for organizations those organizations would drop them or be ground into dust by lawsuit after lawsuit.

*not for lack of advertisers but for the weight of monetary judgments against them driving them to bankruptcy and then drowning them after bankruptcy can no longer protect them

I’m not sure how to answer you, because you’ve already shown me you don’t think people should have a right to organize against pundits, etc. If a group can’t organize a boycott, why should they be allowed to organize a lawsuit?

I am being rhetorical.