"We are the press! We need to be protected!"

The Des Moines Register sort of made an apology to Iowans and fired a shoddy "journalist." That got Ace of Spades to thinking about the state of journalism today.

they're a Guild who asserts the Absolute Right to attack and destroy any non-journalist citizen in the world, but which shrieks "We are the press! We need to be protected!" when the same treatment is suggested for them.

They're currently shrieking merely about criticism -- true criticism, as they full well know. They know they're liberal. But if high-ranking Republicans say they're crusading liberal partisans -- which they know they are; they give each other awards in recognition of this -- they shriek that we're "endangering the press" and trying to "chilling the First Amendment."

And meanwhile, they just keep adding to their bloody pile of citizen scalps.

They really do believe -- and intend to codify it as law -- that the First Amendment exists only for the credentialed liberal professional class. They're just hesitant to say it until they're sure they have the power to impose that law.

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