Shepard Fairey admits fault in AP Legal Action
FoxNews/WASHINGTON — The man in the House chamber openly disagreeing with President Barack Obama as he spoke to Congress wasn’t an over-the-top Republican or a seething Democrat. He was a Supreme Court justice, Samuel Alito.
Obama had taken the unusual step of scolding the high court in his State of the Union address Wednesday. “With all due deference to the separation of powers,” he began, the court last week “reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.”
Alito made a dismissive face, shook his head repeatedly and appeared to mouth the words “not true” or possibly “simply not true.”
A reliable conservative appointed to the court by Republican President George W. Bush, Alito was in the majority in the 5-4 ruling.
Mark Lloyd on Future of Media in 2005 - CSPAN
Excerpts:
“If we really want news we can trust, we must create a structure that makes it possible and we must pay for it. One way to accomplish this might be to require commercial media to pay full fare for their access to the tens of billions of dollars of public resources they have access to for pennies. A lion’s share of that money should be used to fully support a reformed public service news service in the U.S. This modern equivalent of the Post Office must be independent from both partisan and corporate pressure, unlike our current structure. And, unlike our current structure, it must be truly accountable to local communities through democratic means.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbwGFj6UAa4
I would say these steps were radical, if they were not consistent with the founders of our republic. Unless we take these steps, we can only expect a continuation of the sort of yellow journalism we are experiencing today.”
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