The Obama Administration has made it abundantly clear that it will not tolerate whistle-blowers. It has launched an investigation into how journalists decide on what they report, what sources they use, and what methods they employ to get stories in front of the American public. Reporters Without Borders’ annual Freedom Index report ranked the United States 46th in the world regarding freedom of information, a drop of 13 spots from 2012. The report cited the trial and conviction of Private Bradley Manning, the pursuit of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and the Justice Department’s seizure of Associated Press phone records in an effort to find the source of a CIA leak, among other cases.
David Cuillier, the president of the Society of Professional Journalists, told FoxNews.com on Monday he agreed with the report’s findings and believes the journalism climate in the United States continues to get worse. He said part of the problem is a public that to a large extent no longer trusts journalists and believes it's acceptable for the government to intimidate reporters, hide information and threaten journalists with jail time for doing their jobs.
They're even planning on installing federal monitors in newsrooms.
It's none of Obama's damned business where I get my stories, which ones I decide to use and why, or why I write they way I do. Any journalist in this country who allows this to happen without raising holy hell deserves to have his knuckles broken. One more step toward a Nazi America is to keep the public in the dark about what the government is doing.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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