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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:07 PM Original message |
Chuck Todd: "Why is what TMZ does legal but what Rupert Murdoch does illegal." |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. Can you imagine a nurse telling a patients medical info... to the wrong person? |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yes. That's the problem. Corruption is rampant in the media and not just in the UK. n/t |
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firehorse (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. Did TMZ hack phones and delete messages on the hacked phones... |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Maybe it's time to find out. n/t |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. HA! I often wondered how the cops and cameras always conveniently |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. What part about illegal wiretapping or Hacking is so difficult for the Toad to understand? |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I'd call giving $75,000 for "dirt" on a celebrity bribery - and that goes on here |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. TMZ has never tried to claim the mantel of journalism... |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. But other sites that copy/paste their trash...DO. And NOTW was a tabloid just like TMZ |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Where is your evidence that TMZ or others commit extortion, blackmail |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. it's only illegal if the government isn't condoning it. now that they have some hack lawyer |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. what is a TMZ? |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Trash Media Zone. n/t |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. Bytheway I have no use for Toad or "Mediaite" - but I think the question asked |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:22 PM Original message |
No kidding, Chuck |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
11. Maybe what TMZ does IS illegal. They just haven't |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Yea - they just haven't gotten caught yet. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
33. That's what they were saying about Nixon for several years after his resignation, |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
12. You can always count on guys like Chuck to come up with a bit of sophistry to |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. did Chuck Todd back it up? |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
14. Is Chuckles angling for a job at Fux Spews now? |
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The Wielding Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
15. I don't see an equality between the TMZ "celebrity diggers" and |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. TMZ and other media outlets do it for their own immediate gain (advert sales) |
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The Wielding Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:53 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. TMZ is a gossip media. They don't pretend to be anything else. |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. But the "news" outlets that copy/paste their garbage does. n/t |
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The Wielding Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 11:15 AM Response to Reply #28 |
45. Yes. That is what makes it so wrong. News make an observation a fact. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
22. 'I've been told that...' |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Turning a blind eye to an obviously corrupt media is certainly your choice. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:27 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. Back atcha. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. As far as we know they have not engaged in hacking and other practices |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. So bribery for lies is OK with you? n/t |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #27 |
40. He never said it was OK, just that one breaks a few laws, the other breaks a lot of laws |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. And if a person is in the public eye, they do not deserve to NOT have their lives destroyed |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. It is not whether I agree with it... US Law actually makes a distinction |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:38 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. They can sue...but they'd lose. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. no, they cannot... you can for things like making up stories |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
26. Because the source is disclosing voluntarily. n/t |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. When a celebrity was secretly filmed by a member of the media as (s)he arrived |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:45 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Thanks for the lecture, but it sounds like we agree. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:48 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. btw, if they met in a public place, then it's fair game |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:50 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Correct and that is standard US law |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
46. filming a celebrity in public is not illegal |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
38. Chuck Todd proves he's not that smart...he should quit while he's ahead |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
41. The focus should be on News Corp right now |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
42. I'm just waiting for the inevitable (invalid) comparison to Wikileaks. |
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Wounded Bear (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
43. Because maybe it's a false equivalency? |
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gort (567 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
44. TMZ exposes celebrities. Murdoch was invading the privacy of private and public citizens |
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