Yea... I've always thought of freedom of the press as being "shouldn't that be covered by the freedom of speech"... though I suppose that would be "freedom of communication" if you wanted to be really nit-picky... I think the reason we ended up with "freedom of the press" as a separate "right" is largely because of the time in which those documents were drafted. That was long enough after Guttenberg for the press to be in common useage, but this concept of "the news of the day" (i.e. newspaper) was relatively new... so it just turns out that it ended up getting its own "freedom" because it was the new hip thing... Fairly similar to specific moratoriums on taxes for items sold over the internet even though you don't have to pay taxes for internet sales anyway due to the mail-order laws. Or at least so I've heard.
> That what I did -- then decided that freedom of the press > is a subset of > freedom of speech. ::shrug:: both the local weeklies did a > special July 4th > issue on freedom of speech, the constituton, and the > Patriot Act, so I have > reading material :) Anyone know the status of Patriot II > btw? > Dana > S. Isaac Dealey writes: >> > ya, it's oral and more of an interview than a test, I >> > gather. But they are >> > careful not to ask you questions with no correct >> > answer, >> > like "who has the >> > right to delare war?" Erm, are we talking high school >> > civics or real life >> > here? The quesions are all and cut and dry, like, who >> > is >> > your senator or >> > what do the stars on the flag represent. >> >> > fwiw I got 8 out of 9. I refuse to count that quesion >> > about the rights of >> > aliens; none of the answers given is correct. I did get >> > life libery and the >> > pursuit of happiness wrong. >> >> I knew life, liberty and the persuit of happiness was a >> passage from the preamble to the constitution... still >> got the question wrong... my first instinct was to choose >> freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of >> religion and then I balked and selected the other wrong >> answer before submitting. >> >> s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 >> >> new epoch http://www.turnkey.to >> >> lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to >> >> tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi >> >> certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer >> http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > Archives: > http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 > Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index. > cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 > This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by > CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion > Hosting. > http://www.cfhosting.com > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/uns > ubscribe.cfm?user=633.558.5 s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
