Bloggers can be easy prey for those in the media who don’t share their views – or their ratings – but this time the bile’s gone too far:
On Sunday. ‘Fixed News’ anchors Greg Jarrett and Julie Banderas were discussing the Miss California debacle, and they clearly wanted to be the focus of some media themselves.
During a rambling dissection of last month’s proceedings, Mr. Jarrett attacked celebrity blogger, Perez Hilton for having the, seemingly unfettered gall to ask Carrie Prejean a question regarding gay marriage. “I feel sorry for all the heat she got from Perez Hilton. What an awful human being,” Mr. Jarrett opined on Perez. “What a despicable guy that guy is,” Jarrett continued, clearly relishing his role as the nation’s new blog-fighting hero. “Why would anybody invite him to be a Judge? That’s what I don’t know.”
Mr. Jarrett apparently believes that Perez has broken some obscure law? Perez asked a question, as was his right; Thereby imparting a task that most sentient beings with IQ’s above milk would not exactly find taxing – The provision of a coherent answer.
And it is not Mr. Hilton who has taken the fallout from that answer and used it to build a career.
In this glorious nation, everyone is free to hold an opinion, and to give voice to that viewpoint by running a blog. Even one that upsets Mr. Jarrett. But the First Amendment – like most books with long words – is perhaps something else ‘Fixed News’ cannot read?
Source: TV Week
