Re: BIAS: CNN commits fraud, rewrites history, WAS: RE: "liberal media"

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 11:33:19 MDT

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    > (gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com>):
    >
    > Network news websites are not "permanent public records" in any legal
    > sense. If the NRA wants to sue CNN then they certainly won't need evidence
    > from the website to do so. The websites are merely additional publications
    > of the network, no different from magazines. The networks are perfectly
    > free to decide which broadcast news segments will appear on their websites.

    Whether or not they are free to do so is not the issue; how one
    chooses to exercise one's freedom reveals one's character. If they
    choose to publish every story they produce except the few that
    make them look bad, the fact that they have the legal right to do
    so is no excuse. 

    -- 
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC

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