i have never sensed "rhetorical" from you, but, on these questions, i thought you might know more than i ever will. so, was not sure.KingdomBuilder wrote:Thanks for the reply. My questions are not rhetorical at all; rarely are.
I think this thread needs to simmer down.
i'm glad he included a mention about special protections for media. they do have special protections! i am not an expert, but, i hope more on this will be made "common knowledge."Ben Carson News
Carson Calls on Media to Hold National Summit On How to Provide Fair Coverage
Former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson has called on the mainstream media to hold a national summit to discuss how to provide fair coverage.
Carson told Fox News that
They are supposed to be on the side of the people, they are not supposed to be distorting the information that they give in order to put forth a particular view point or an ideology and that is what they are doing.”
Carson emphasized that the purpose of the summit should be “to come up with some rules.
And they need to abide by those rules.
He reiterated that he would be happy to work with media, explaining that already,
And I say, maybe you can be the new wave. You can bring some integrity back to honorable profession and it can be done and it must be done. Because it is essential to the well-being of our country.”
Carson, who has been a member of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, said last week he did not want a cabinet position, because he had not government experience and had never run a federal agency, The Hill reported.
The retired neurosurgeon had been touted as a possible secretary of Health and Human Services, so that he could take a leading role in helping to roll back Obamacare in the new administration. He reiterated, however, that he would continue to advise the Trump administration in an unofficial capacity.
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Haven't they already done that many times, and come up with standards for accuracy and ethics? Shouldn't we simply decide to prefer news organizations that publish the rules they follow for fair coverage and invite the public to criticize them when they get it wrong?Ben Carson News
Carson Calls on Media to Hold National Summit On How to Provide Fair Coverage
“We ought to open up the libel laws, and I’m going to do that.”
The changes envisioned by the celebrity businessman turned Republican front-runner would mean that “when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money,” he said at a rally Friday in Fort Worth, Texas.
Trump added that, should he win the election, news organizations that have criticized him will “have problems.” He specifically cited The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Trump last month threatened to sue the Post after the newspaper wrote an article about the bankruptcy of his Atlantic City casino. On Twitter, Trump has routinely criticized reporters who cover him and their news organizations, including The Associated Press.
“The press has to be fair,” he said in the broadcast interview.
First Amendment advocates condemned Trump’s suggestions.
“His statement shows why we need libel protections,” said Gregg Leslie, legal defense director for the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “Trump gets offended, he gets upset and he wants to sue to retaliate. That’s not a good reason to sue someone.”
Libel law in the United States generally makes it difficult for public figures to sue reporters or other people who criticize them. To win such a case, the plaintiff must demonstrate that factually incorrect statements were made with actual malice or a reckless disregard for the truth.
Trump said he would like to lower that standard. “We’re going to have people sue you like you never got sued before,” he said.
Because the Supreme Court has repeatedly endorsed the existing legal standard, Trump could not change libel laws as they affect public figures by executive order or even with an act of Congress, Leslie said.
“I’ve never heard of politicians say they would repeal case law established under the First Amendment,” he said. “You’d really need a constitutional amendment to do that.”
They got it mostly from the First Amendment and from court cases where the government was trying to prevent them from reporting on things that the government was doing wrong. The executive and legislative branches haven't usually been eager to help the press keep them honest by reporting things they don't want reported.temporal1 wrote:i agree with his point that the general public is not informed about special protections the industry has lobbied for and acquired over time.
We now have the first president in recent memory who has not made his taxes public, and his finances are privately held and very obscure, with lots of connections to foreign powers. He is also the first president in recent memory who decided that he did not need to put his financial interests in a blind trust, but can just let his family handle them. That opens him up to lots of potential conflicts of interest. And he is also the first president to ever claim that a president "can't have a conflict of interest". And he is also the first president to come into power with at least 75 pending lawsuits. Many of these lawsuits are probably frivolous, but there some that look real, including fraud, sexual harassment, campaign violations, libel, etc.temporal1 wrote:clean it up!
Huh? Is that a response to what I wrote?temporal1 wrote:sorry for your loss.
Balance, critical thinking starts with reading and responding to things, thinking them through together, challenging facts, welcoming various points of view. And you're right, it is the antidote to indoctrination.temporal1 wrote:...the "government indoctrination centers" need a big overhaul, Pre-K through college. the focus must be on balanced, critical thinking; and, quality of education, not "free" education.
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Carson: HUD Secretary 'One of Offers on the Table'
Former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson confirmed Housing and Urban Development secretary is among the positions he has talked to the incoming Trump administration about.
Trump tweeted earlier Tuesday that Carson is under consideration for the post. Carson was one of the world's top pediatric neurosurgeons and was head of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, and was thought to be a candidate for secretary of Health and Human Services or surgeon general.
He has previously said he had no intention of being part of the Trump administration, but reversed himself Sunday in an interview with Fox News.
Asked Tuesday about the HUD post on Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," Carson said, "Well, you know, our inner cities are in terrible shape. And they definitely need some real attention."
Carson grew up the son of a single mother in Detroit.
"You know, there have been so many promises made over the last several decades, and nothing has been done," Carson told Cavuto. "So it certainly is something that has been a long-term interest of mine. And I'll be thinking and praying about it seriously."
When Cavuto asked flat-out if HUD secretary had been offered, Carson said, "I would say that was one of the offers that is on the table."
"I know that I grew up in the inner city, and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities," he said.
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But you aren't willing to discuss them? This is a discussion forum, anything you post is there for discussion, that's the whole point. People who just want to read whatever Carson sends to his mailing list are free to subscribe.temporal1 wrote:In this thread, Dr Carson updates are my interest.
To me, Carson's world view is clearly opposed to a Two Kingdom understanding, and is not focused on a clear understanding of Scripture. Sadly, he has become a culture warrior. And he's taken quite a few "moral shortcuts".Bootstrap wrote:I agree. And sometimes it's helpful to adopt the language of the Scriptures if you want to think along the same lines.PeterG wrote:Exactly. The church's proper course of action is defined not in opposition to the world, but in conformity to Christ and the Scriptures.
If you can't think about right versus wrong without using the terms "leftist", "right-wing", "conservative", and "liberal", then you have adopted a modern political world view as your primary way of thinking about right and wrong. If you can't distinguish truth from falsehood without using the terms "leftist", "right-wing", "conservative", and "liberal", then you have adopted a modern political world view as your primary way of thinking about truth.
