Is There Too Much News?

Letamp8217s stepback a moment though to focus on a pair of serious pointsamp160 First there is a 1st Amendment enshrined in the Unites States of Americaamp8217s Constitution and it declares Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances Second members of the United States government when they join it must take an oath to protect and defend the Constitutionamp160 The President Vice President Congressfolk and members of US government agencies all must take that oath and presumably have read and understand the ConstitutionNow letamp8217s catch up with the weekendamp8217s recent newsamp160Complaining for months about amp8220fake newsamp8221 wasnamp8217t enough for our Presidentamp160 On camera he said amp8220It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into itamp8221The President threatened to lift NBCamp8217s imaginary licenseEarlier the President tweeted amp8220With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License Bad for countryamp8221The socalled independent Federal Communications Commission has five membersamp160 Only one member Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel bothered to comment on the reality that the 1st Amendment takes politics out of license renewalsThe three Republican members of the Commission including the Chairman havenamp8217t spokenOnly one Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska has commented directly tweeting amp8220Mr President Are you recanting of the Oath you took on Jan 20 to preserve protect and defend the 1st Amendmentamp8221The other 49 Republicans merely shruggedThis is seriousamp160 While amp8220fake newsamp8221 is nothing more than reporting that makes the President whine we need to pay attention while reporting the news or we wonamp8217t have the chance to get things rightRandom NotesIts cable week in Denver as the Society of Cable Techniciansamp8217 CableTec Expo gets underwayamp160 But it is more than cable it is really the Internet infrastructure week as the Expo replaces what was the NCTA showamp160 And while it is run by and for cable techs there sure will be a lot of the other Internet Service Providers paying attention to the exhibitors and policymakersamp160 Iamp8217ll be there most of the week and will followup soonClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writersamp160amp160

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