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- From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
- Subject: Re: Libertarians live in Virtual Reality
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.172132.12492@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <22948@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:21:32 GMT
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- From article <22948@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, by tucker@shiva.edsg.hac.com (George Tucker):
- > In article <1992Aug16.164130.11590@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
- >>From article <1073@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>, by mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson):
- >>> In <1992Aug11.151010.18532@hellgate.utah.edu> tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:
- >>>>..... As long as you have two
- >>>>opposed regulation agencies, they will watch each other for problems.
- >>>>In our system, one of those regulation agencies is the media- but that is
- >>>>not a sufficient protection alone against business.
- >>> Please offer some proof of this assertion.
- >>I couldn't resist the urge to respond, because the answer is so easy.
- >
- >>Private business is by definition private, and can not be compelled to
- >>submit to public scrutiny except by edict of government. If the press
- >>were to try to scrutinize it, it would be one private business trying
- >>to regulate another.
- >>
- >>So we keep it clean. Government is supposed to be a public agency of
- >>regulation, which is itself regulated by the people. The press is a
- >>general agent of scrutiny which, for a price, will pry into anything
- >>that appears remotely public, especially government. I suggest we
- >>strengthen that system, not give up on it.
- >
- > Are you proposing that the press should be prohibited from investigating
- > business fraud?
-
- No, I'm pointing out that the press has no authority to investigate
- fraud. The press frequently reports that so-and-so "could not be
- reached for comment." Are you proposing that the press should have
- the authority to supboena witnesses and conduct searches?
-
- Marty
- marty@hoqaa.att.com hoqaa!marty
- Martin B. Brilliant (Winnertech Corporation)
-