Resistance Is Futile

I’ve been in some form of broadcast and/or news media for 33 of the past 43 years.

I’ve had years of experience and training in every aspect of how the media works; from how to turn on a transmitter (and the FCC license to prove it) and edit video and how to talk so people can understand you, to the standards and practices a professional journalist has to follow to do news.

I’ve paid dues you can’t imagine.

More importantly, I’ve seen how the big media works. Do you have any idea the machine a TV station brings to covering stories and producing content? The sheer number of people in network, or even a major newspaper, can bring to reporting and covering a story? The talent, the training, the experience, the equipment, the money…

If you think you’re going up against Big Media with your First Amendment rights and your Twitter feed, your Tumblr account, your little podcast?

You’re simply delusional. Watch a crew from Channel 4 or MPR News or C-Span in action; you and your cell-phone cam will slink away in shame.

The First Amendment is for the professionals. Like me.


That sounds really stupid, doesn’t it?

So when a cop or “former federal agent” or veteran does the same thing in re civil rights – the Second or Fourth Amendments – does it sound any less myopic?

One thought on “Resistance Is Futile

  1. “I’ve paid dues you can’t imagine.”

    “I’ve seen how big media works.”

    You didn’t happen to watch Blade Runner recently, did you? Because I’m definitely hearing echoes of Rutger Hauer’s improvised speech at the end.

    Have you seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion? What about C-beams glittering near the Tannhauser Gate?

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