Originally Posted by
SAPHOJUNKIE
You don't understand the constitution.
A free press can't be shut down for criticizing the government. That doesn't mean that newspapers, which are privately owned, can't fire one of their journalists for performance-based inadequacies.
Freedom of speech means that you can't silence me, simply because you disagree with me. I have a right to my opinion. Whitlock has a right to his opinion. No one can stop him from spouting off ever-more-ridiculous nicknames for the men of power who ignore him. He has a constitutional right to never do research, never be honest and reasonable with his opinions, and make transparent attacks on those who recognize him as the hack he is. that doesn't mean he has a right to be PAID for these "opinions" when the people who PAY to read the newspaper throw his pages away, unread.
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