johnny9fingers: (Sri Yantra)
johnny9fingers ([personal profile] johnny9fingers) wrote2012-12-19 02:09 pm

Someone with bigger balls than Rupert or Roger...

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/12/court_rules_for_wendy_mcc.php

That Wendy McCaw could sure show Rupert Murdoch a thing or two about how to run a newspaper. [Slaps thigh.]

Isn't it amazing when one finds out that the US Constitution's first amendment doesn't really mean what you thought it did?

Now, in this conflicting tangle of First Amendment rights (the journalists, the editor, and the owner) which will win if the case goes to SCOTUS (as it might) is up in the air. Good times, hey?

[identity profile] pastorlenny.livejournal.com 2012-12-19 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You forget that money is speech.

[identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com 2012-12-19 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh shit, early-onset cognition problems again.

[identity profile] pastorlenny.livejournal.com 2012-12-19 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I suggest more ginko biloba.