From: "RHF"
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 2 Dec 2005 23:11:19 -0800
Subject: Planting phony stories

DX Ace,

Both the NYT and LAT buildings should be painted Red
{or at least Pink} - imho ~ RHF
.
Or maybe red white & blue would be more appropriate, since our founding
fathers were so adamant about keeping a free press in our new democracy that
they incorporated its protection in the very First Amendment.

("No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free, no
one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the fair operation of attack
and defence. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth
whether in religion, law or politics. I think it as honorable to the
government neither to know nor notice its sycophants or censors, as it would
be undignified and criminal to pamper the former and persecute the latter."
--Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792.)

The irony here is that you would criticize those newspapers for telling the
truth. In this case the truth is that the Bush administration, while
bragging about the "free and independent" news sources springing up in Iraq,
seeks to control what those sources report. A free press has always been
anathema to the Bush administration because of all the administration's
devious pursuits and corrupt practices that don't hold up well to public
scrutiny.

This administration is looking more and more like the corrupt Nixon/Agnew
one, whose primary enemy was not the foreign powers who would seek to
destroy our democracy, but rather the media who would seek to protect it.

Greg