From RT.com….
Glenn Greenwald and others have blasted a liberal “journalist” after she suggested Fox News should not be protected by First Amendment rights.
I cannot stress enough what a civil liberties crisis it is that the leading advocates of censorship in the US are liberal journalists: the same people whose duty is to champion the First Amendment, not demand its gutting.
And look how much they worship and revere "authorities": pic.twitter.com/AdPvMjD4BQ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 7, 2021
“At what point does the defense start being invoked enough for the authorities to determine that what Fox News does is like yelling fire in a crowded theater and is no longer protected by the First Amendment?” GQ writer Julia Ioffe tweeted this week.
The take was in response to a story about an attorney for a client facing charges over the January 6 Capitol riot, who claimed he had “Foxitus” and “Foxmania” from watching the right-leaning network excessively for six months.
Ioffe invoking the often misused “yelling fire in a crowded theater” defense – the phrase originates from a decades-old Supreme Court case with a decision that was eventually overturned – did not inspire much confidence in her case.
