{"id":122,"date":"2005-01-31T15:32:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T22:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-07-08T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T04:51:06","slug":"us-students-say-press-freedoms-go-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Students Say Press Freedoms Go Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is the kind of article that gets my blood up. Until I think about it. Then I sink into despair.<\/p>\n

Think it’s bad that 36% of the U.S. high school students in this survey think newspapers should get government approval of stories before publishing? I think it’s worse than that. I think 36% of the students surveyed were honest enough to say what they really thought. I think at least that many more answered the survey by saying what they knew they were supposed to say.<\/p>\n

I don’t want the power to peer into peoples’ souls. I’m afraid of what I’d see. The Bill of Rights<\/a> is simply wasted on many of us. I suspect a lot of U.S. citizens would be perfectly happy living under a benevolent dictatorship. Hell, I suspect a significant number would be happy living under a less than benevolent dictatorship, so long as those of their own skin color or religion weren’t oppressed.<\/p>\n

How many of us would take to the streets for freedom of the press? And what about Amendment IV, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects? My god, the Supreme Court is gutting it<\/a> before our very eyes, and hardly anyone outside the ACLU is so much as saying, “Hey, wazzup with that?”<\/p>\n

We need to learn from the keep-and-bear-arms folks – now there are some people who are willing to defend constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms. Well, one freedom, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the kind of article that gets my blood up. Until I think about it. Then I sink into despair. Think it’s bad that 36% of the U.S. high school students in this survey think newspapers should get government approval of stories before publishing? I think it’s worse than that. I think 36% of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}