Another Institution Fails: "Just Words On A Page ..."
Just what could be expected from an upper class of chickenshit bullies & assholes. Death to the cowardly publishers & their corporate greed! At least send a strongly-worded letter.Jameel Jaffer / New York Times:
Each legal settlement with Trump by powerful media organizations weakens the freedoms they rely on, damages their credibility, and pressures other outlets — Judge Learned Hand, revered for his eloquent and consequential defense of free speech at the height of World War I, came to fear …Ben Mullin / @benmullin: An eloquent essay, from @JameelJaffer, on the current media moment: https://www.nytimes.com/...Matt Taibbi / Racket News: Nation Shrugs as Godzilla Eats Washington@freedom.press: These settlement payments amount to legalized bribery by news networks' corporate parents. — Ownership should not put journalists in the position of having to report on Trump's corruption while their employers participate in it.@knightcolumbia.org: “Some of the nation's most powerful media institutions have concluded that it is simply not in their commercial interests to inconvenience the president, even if sparing him inconvenience means abandoning their own First Amendment rights.” - @jameeljaffer.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...Kate Klonick / @klonick.bsky.social: All of this by @jameeljaffer.bsky.social but especially this: — “The 1st Am. is just words on a page. Giving those words meaning—sustaining their promise, generation after generation—depends on a civic courage that seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply” — www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...@freedom.press: The First Amendment gives U.S. publishers and platforms rights “that are the envy of their counterparts around the world. That today so many of these organizations evidently lack the will or courage to exercise them is frightening and dispiriting.” — @knightcolumbia.org's @jameeljaffer.bsky.social.Renee DiResta / @noupside.bsky.social: An op-ed in defense of free speech -the law & the value- that highlights how it's being compromised by media outlets & CEOs capitulating to a man whose movement turned “free speech” into a meme. — “Civic courage...seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...Alexander Karn / @xankarn@mastodon.online: Press freedom isn't free. If big media won't use its treasure for self defense, then it never was journalism to begin with. — Gift link. — https://www.nytimes.com/...@froomkin.bsky.social: “The First Amendment gives American publishers and platforms rights that are the envy of their counterparts around the world. That today so many of these organizations evidently lack the will or courage to exercise them is frightening and dispiriting.” (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...Jennifer Stisa Granick / @jennifer@defcon.social: We are watching as “some of the largest American media institutions and technology companies prostrate themselves, one after another, before Donald Trump, offering obscene sums of money to settle feeble or frivolous lawsuits that one would have expected them to contest.” — https://www.nytimes.com/...Jean-Paul Marthoz / @jpmarthoz.bsky.social: US media corporations and Donald Trump. “The First Amendment is just words on a page. Giving those words meaning depends on a civic courage that seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply”. This is how autocrats prosper — www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o... @jameeljaffer.bsky.social
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