Blurry Brains
Idiots:
There is an axiom which tells us that we should strive to always remain open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains fall out of our heads. Swiss journalists and leftists have obviously gone well past that point. (N.B. - One could delete the word "Swiss" in the preceding sentence and it would remain valid.)
This is an example of what happens when people with journalism degrees mistake themselves for intellectuals: they start trying to think. They really shouldn't do that. Who, What, When, Where. That is all with which they need concern themselves. Policy creation and interpretation of law should be left to those who possess the mental wattage for the task.
Swiss media have taken privacy rulings to a new extreme - after they pixelated out a police pic of a wanted bank robber with a gun in one hand and a sack of cash in the other - because it interfered with his right to privacy.
The pic had been issued by Swiss police who wanted aid from the public in catching the man.
The move has infuriated Swiss MP Yannick Buttet (34) who has filed a motion demanding a change of policy from state TV station TSR that used the picture on its main news bulletin "Journal de 19h 30".
He said: "I don't know about privacy but it certainly infringes on good basic common sense."
But TSR speaker Christophe Minder refused to budge, saying: "We have decided never to show the faces of those involved in a crime, unless there is an immediate physical danger to the public." He was backed up by the Swiss TV and Radio Association (SRG) where spokesman Daniel Steiner said: "With regards to the current privacy laws we do not make public images of people needed for identification purposes unless there is an immediate risk."
But an angry Buttet said: "If a masked gunman is not a danger to the public, then I don't know what is. What they did was stupid and they just don't want to admit it."
Buttet has won support from 21 colleagues from the CVP, FDP and SVP with only the left wing politicians refusing to agree - saying the right to privacy must remain paramount.
SP politician Roger Nordmann said: "Innocent until proven guilty is valid for every suspect, until he is convicted of course."
There is an axiom which tells us that we should strive to always remain open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains fall out of our heads. Swiss journalists and leftists have obviously gone well past that point. (N.B. - One could delete the word "Swiss" in the preceding sentence and it would remain valid.)
This is an example of what happens when people with journalism degrees mistake themselves for intellectuals: they start trying to think. They really shouldn't do that. Who, What, When, Where. That is all with which they need concern themselves. Policy creation and interpretation of law should be left to those who possess the mental wattage for the task.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 08:11
1 Comments:
This is an example of what happens when people with journalism degrees mistake themselves for intellectuals: they start trying to think.
Sorry to correct you, but if they made even the slightest effort to think for themselves they would no longer be accepted in the liberal media. In that crowd your "intellectual" credentials are based on your ability to parrot party approved dogma.
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