re: #55 Charles

I think it’s a terrible precedent to set, for politicians to start suing people who write mean or untrue things about them.

And she has almost no chance of winning such lawsuits, as a very public figure.

So, by definition…being a very public person allows MSM and bloggers (of either side) to write patently false and defamatory statements about people (of either side)? Wow….

Senator blah-de-blah was reportedly seen engaging in (fill in the blank) with (fill in the blank)…published by (fill in the blank) with full knowledge that the statement was FALSE and DEFAMATORY…only to cause political and potentially personal ‘damage’ to said Senator…

I am all for free speech…but what happened to decency?

Blogger, TV personality, or MSM venue…that should NOT be an exception or defense for writing the garbage that has been printed about politicians and public individuals over the past xx decades…or whenever this decline in decency in the press started.

I really wonder if ‘real time’ media outlets such as blogging, twittering, or youtube are not more of a detriment to society. No longer is there the ‘take a deep breath’ time involved with writing and reporting…we have individuals writing stream of consciousnesses and real time tweet’s while others are happily (or not) attacking… People get lost in the heat of the moment…things get said that can’t be taken back thanks to the internet.

Just sayin’…

GG