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May 15, 2005
What Makes Time Better Than Me?
Why does Time Magazine feel that it is better than me? What gives them the right to violate US law by revealing (using anonymous sources) that a given person is an agent of the CIA, in violation of the law, while still binding me? In other words, why does Time think that it is somehow privileged? Is there somewhere in the Constitution or in US law that states that journalists are those people who work for an organization that claims to report the news, and that they have some special privilege that separates them from me? If so, then what is that characteristic that differentiates them? I have the same privilege of publishing to the Internet that they do, and people may or may not read what I write and may or may not believe it, as they may or may not read what Time writes and may or may not believe it. Can I simply publish the names of confidential employees of the government, claiming freedom of the press? If not, why not? And if not, why should Time be able to do so?
By all means, let's take this to the Supreme Court. Time deserves to have it's ass handed to it by the Supreme Court. They are no better - indeed no different - than me. (OK, they have more money, and can buy their way out of all kinds of things. But they're not better or different in any moral sense.)
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Hell, at least Time is having to fight this fight. What about John Kerry's repeated outing of a CIA agent in the Bolton hearings? Think he'll face any punishment or threat of?
Posted by: Brian at May 16, 2005 2:00 AM