Left Wing Stupidity: Left Wing Journalists want Fox News shut down by Government

Just to show you that I have not gone totally “around the bend”, so to speak. This struck me as just incredibly stupid:

This comes Via Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller:

The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into paroxysms of rage. When Howell Raines charged that the network had a conservative bias, the members of Journolist discussed whether the federal government should shut the channel down.

“I am genuinely scared” of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it “shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework.” Davies, a Brit, frequently argued the United States needed stricter libel laws.

“I agree,” said Michael Scherer of Time Magazine. Roger “Ailes understands that his job is to build a tribal identity, not a news organization. You can’t hurt Fox by saying it gets it wrong, if Ailes just uses the criticism to deepen the tribal identity.”

Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. “Do you really want the political parties/white house picking which media operations are news operations and which are a less respectable hybrid of news and political advocacy?”

But Zasloff stuck to his position. “I think that they are doing that anyway; they leak to whom they want to for political purposes,” he wrote. “If this means that some White House reporters don’t get a press pass for the press secretary’s daily briefing and that this means that they actually have to, you know, do some reporting and analysis instead of repeating press releases, then I’ll take that risk.”

Scherer seemed alarmed. “So we would have press briefings in which only media organizations that are deemed by the briefer to be acceptable are invited to attend?”

John Judis, a senior editor at the New Republic, came down on Zasloff’s side, the side of censorship. “Pre-Fox,” he wrote, “I’d say Scherer’s questions made sense as a question of principle. Now it is only tactical.”

What you have just read above; is why I sided against the liberal left. Because Liberals believe in freedom of speech; as long as it matches up with their political ideologies. Conservatives, for all their faults, do embrace true freedom of speech. Liberals, I am afraid, do not. This is a perfect example of that. The very idea of the FCC pulling Fox News’s broadcast license, because of their political stance, is absolutely asinine. Not to mention it smacks of communism and yes, even Nazi fascism.

For what it is worth and as horrible as it sounds; Nazi Germany and Communist Russia BOTH did control their press and even had a Government-controlled press. This sounds like what these guys want, a controlled press that only exposes their ideals. That is a true definition of fascism; government control over every aspect of people’s lives —- including the privately owned press.