I AM The Press

[Ca Patriot]

What is the "press" ?

The Founding Fathers of America realized that in order for a free republic to exist the citizens had to be informed about matters regarding their government. The founders believed so strongly in this that they made the First Amendment to the Constitution to ensure that anyone could gather information, opine and disseminate the information without government interference, censorship or punishment.

The "press" or "media" simply refers to people who gather information and then spread that information to others.

Never did the founding fathers ever believe that people intending to engage in press would or should need a permit to do so.

Never did the founding fathers intend that a person who engages in free press would need to be certified, qualified or be approved by a third party to do so.

However, for the last 100 years in America, we have had a system of "corporate" media. Simply put, only corporations that operated for profit were considered "press". These corporations were in cahoots with the government and had a symbiotic relationship. The corporations would issue their own "press passes" and credentials and the government would give priviledged access and information in exchange for positive or neutral coverage.

This has led to a culture and century of LIES in American media and American government.

This has led to a society and population of misinformed and brainwashed citizens.

Today in America though we have a new culture of citizen press. However, the government does not recognize these people as "real" press and shuns them.

In my area of Los Angeles the biggest news paper is the LA Times. A second large paper is the Daily Breeze. Slightly smaller is the Easy Reader. All of these are corporations and they all have relationships with the government. They are given privileged information and access.

In checking their circulations I have found that many of my Youtube videos have more viewers than most stories that are run by the Daily Breeze and Easy Readers.

Last week myself and my partner went to the Hawthorne Police station to cover the story of the police shooting and killing the dog. The police held a private briefing with "the press" but we were not allowed in. The police played for the media a video they had but were not making it public.

Myself and my partner were not allowed to attend the briefing because we didn't have "credentials" and we weren't "real press".

Translation....a corporation didn't give us a laminated sticker saying that we agreed to print positive stories and tag lines about the government. Therefore, the government wont give us information to disseminate and inform the public.

There is NO SUCH THING as press credentials. They are simply ID's issued by corporations.

One of my videos made with my partner now has over 600,000 views online.

That is 100 times more than the average story run by the Daily Breeze and Easy Reader and it is more than most stories run by the LA Times.

I am the press.

 

[eye95]

You are not the press. You are a wannabe with a videocamera trying to make news rather than uncover it.

But, as usual, with all of your threads, you really only want it to be about you.

Pathetic.

 

[countryclubjoe]

CAP

Create your own company/corp. Not so difficult.
Create an LLC or S corp. List your LLC or Corp as a Non Profit Corp.

Let me be the first to suggest a name for your new press company. " Patriot Press' LLC

Play there little game, apply for a permit or license and go report.

Good luck.

CCJ

 

[Ca Patriot]

CAP

Create your own company/corp. Not so difficult.
Create an LLC or S corp. List your LLC or Corp as a Non Profit Corp.

Let me be the first to suggest a name for your new press company. " Patriot Press' LLC

Play there little game, apply for a permit or license and go report.

Good luck.

CCJ

You don't need a license or a permit. In fact, no one issues permits or licenses for press.

 

[Citizen]

You are not the press. You are a wannabe with a videocamera trying to make news rather than uncover it.

But, as usual, with all of your threads, you really only want it to be about you.

Pathetic.

First, let me say I agree wholeheartedly with everything not bolded. Massively, completely, totally. He's reached levels of absurdity Peter Sellers could only dream of.

With that said, he is the press.

Freedom of the press refers not to a publishing organization, but to the right to publish for broader consumption. The 1A right genuinely does refer to the device used to print the pages. Anybody can own one and use it.

For support I will refer to a victim of the government witchhunt against John Lilburne. Another man whose name I forget was charged with him at one point. The government had to hunt high and low to find the secret press used to print this other man's tracts against the government.

This was the very sort of press contemplated by the First Amendment. A small press. Used secretly. To publish tracts critical of government.

So, while NotAPatriot is not the press in the modern sense, his publishing activities are certainly, definitely, undoubtedly covered by the 1A freedom of the press.

As long as the forums and websites that host his stuff agree to host it, that is.

 

[eye95]

I don't dispute his right to publish almost anything he desires, including all of the crap he already has. He is still not "the press." He is a wannabe. The press does not spend all of its time talking about itself. It knows that it is rarely the story. When it is its own story, that is usually bad news for the press.

He is no more the press than a guy in bermuda shorts at Disneyland filming his equally poorly-clad wife and catching an amusement ride accident. In fact, Mr. bermuda-shorts has a grander claim to presshood than that self-declared "patriot" and self-declared member of the "press."

Such a level of narcissism I have never seen on OCDO.

 

[Ca Patriot]

Eye - The constitution and SCOTUS disagree with you. Thankfully.

 

[OC for ME]

Main stream punditry exists to enable punditry. The punditry class despises the citizen journalist. Evidence the plummeting revenues for print media.

 

[eye95]

As I indicated in an earlier post, I do not dispute your freedom of the press. I just find it laughable the you call yourself the press--and egotistically devote a whole thread to it.

Your pathetic need to be the center of attention, to the point where you create thread after thread where you are the subject of your own idiotic posts, points to an unhealthy narcissism that I suspect has its real roots in a deep-seated feeling of inadequacy.

That's OK. It means that more and more people are catching on to you and seeing you for what you are. I'll just make sure that I keep pointing it out so the new people don't get left out.


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[Citizen]

I don't dispute his right to publish almost anything he desires, including all of the crap he already has. He is still not "the press." He is a wannabe. The press does not spend all of its time talking about itself. It knows that it is rarely the story. When it is its own story, that is usually bad news for the press.

He is no more the press than a guy in bermuda shorts at Disneyland filming his equally poorly-clad wife and catching an amusement ride accident. In fact, Mr. bermuda-shorts has a grander claim to presshood than that self-declared "patriot" and self-declared member of the "press."

Such a level of narcissism I have never seen on OCDO.

I don't understand why you're but-ing me. I've acknowledged and wholeheartedly agreed with your personal criticisms of him.

Maybe he does want to make settlement money from videoing cops at traffic stops and so forth. So what? As annoying, and narcissistic as that may be, it is still protected. If cops don't want attention-grabbing narcissistists videoing them, let them deeply respect the rights of all.

Are you willing to toss the freedom of the press because you don't like the personality of the exerciser?

There is no "the press" in the constitutional sense you are using. Even though knucklehead himself misused it and probably had no clue, and however accidental and inadvertent he may be, he is still the protected press--he is publishing against governement.

End of discussion. Moving on.

 

[eye95]

I am only but-ing any possible implication that I am saying that he cannot exercise freedom of the press. It is his arrogant use of the title that is so beyond the pale.


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[Citizen]

I am only but-ing any possible implication that I am saying that he cannot exercise freedom of the press. It is his arrogant use of the title that is so beyond the pale.


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And, that's my point--it is exactly that one-man press that the 1A protects. For all his many, many faults, he did get that right, even if accidentally.

If you object to him claiming to be a journalist, or a member of the professional press, fine. Say so.

Otherwise, stop undermining the First Amendment.

 

[Ca Patriot]

I am only but-ing any possible implication that I am saying that he cannot exercise freedom of the press. It is his arrogant use of the title that is so beyond the pale.

You are such a hater.

 

[eye95]

I do hate what you do. Nothing wrong with that.


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[Citizen]

you are such a hater.

lol!

NotaPatriot ought to know--he's ranted against muslims, immigrants, cops, fellow forum members, Ed Snowden, Brad Manning, etc., etc., etc. Certainly, he's qualified above mere non-patriots to recognize hate.

Aaaaaaahahahahahhahahahahahahahaaa!!

 

[Ca Patriot]

I do hate what you do. Nothing wrong with that.

I don't think you should hate what I do. I document many things including government.

I provide citizen oversight of government.

 

[eye95]

Nah. You always make it about you. Just look at all the threads you start about you.

Narcissistic. I suspect it stems from feelings of inadequacy resulting in compensation.

But, I am not pointing this out for your benefit. You won't see it. Others sure do, though.

Moving on.


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[Citizen]

I don't think you should hate what I do. I document many things including government.

I provide citizen oversight of government.

<rolling on floor laffing, pounding the carpet, unable to breath!!>


Yeah! That's right! That's why he's despised and ridiculed! Because he only documents government and oversights government! Anybody else who did that, but didn't get ridiculed, was doing something wrong!


Aaaaaaaahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahaa!!

 

[Ca Patriot]

Nah. You always make it about you. Just look at all the threads you start about you.

Narcissistic. I suspect it stems from feelings of inadequacy resulting in compensation.

But, I am not pointing this out for your benefit. You won't see it. Others sure do, though.

Moving on.

I've never once appeared in my videos and of my 200 videos posted online I only speak in 2 or 3 of them.

Yeah, I am a real attention seeker.

 

[Citizen]

I've never once appeared in my videos and of my 200 videos posted online I only speak in 2 or 3 of them.

Yeah, I am a real attention seeker.

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