In fact even before there was a "new" media, taking shots at the print and broadcast Media was something of a national sport in America.
But in Saudi Arabia, a crowd of folks got so angry at a TV station they took literal shots....attacking it and the people who worked there because it was believed the station had insulted members of the Royal Family.
Pretty neat deal for the royals. According to the Reuters story...the Saudi "...ruler is protected from criticism by the constitution, and defamation cases against newspapers, writers and bloggers are common."
Here in the U.S., there haven't been any attacks on stations or papers---though the verbal bombs are routinely thrown at the MSM online, including in the swamp known as the post-story comment section*.
In a twist on the Saudi violence, I suppose if the MSM started attacking The Obama Administration more directly these days, would it actually lessen any chance of physical violence against themselves?
*Check out Montgomery Advertiser columnist Terry Manning's column from Sunday on the topic of post-story comments.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog.]
It likely may not be too much longer before someone, their passions inflamed by mental instability and the voice of rhetoric, "goes postal," on anyone or group of people, and upon discovery, those inflammatory rhetoricians and their parent company are sued, almost to the point of non-existence.
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