Thread by @julie_kelly2

Only in the news industry could the conduct of journalists and cable news hosts be excused as heroic rather than egregious violations of professional decorum that would result in immediate termination. For example, let’s say you are a salesman for... amgreatness.com/2019/09/05/onl…

a major company and you start cursing, yelling and threatening the host during an industry event. Or you are the chairman of the board of a major company and you direct your subordinates to lie for 3 years about something that never happened:

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Brian Karem is the poster boy for a rogue, unaccountable news media that can attack people with impunity. “Karem often would verbally abuse Sarah Sanders, the first mother to serve as WH press secretary. His menacing behavior would be considered completely out of bounds...

...in any other business setting; if he had acted in the same manner in a corporate boardroom, or any public venue for that matter, he would have been escorted out and never allowed to return.” He’s now earned hero-worship status among his colleagues and a judge ruled...

that the White House must restore his press pass based on some imaginary protections under the First Amendment. “The First Amendment does not provide constitutional cover for disturbed misogynists like Karem—or, rather, it shouldn’t.”

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Here’s what Judge Contreras said in the Karem case (yes, that Judge Contreras): Karem’s “constitutional interests . . . outweigh the White House’s interest in maintaining order.”

Activists cheered the court’s decision as a win for the First Amendment.

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