Every "media freedom" outlet in the country should be up in arms
about this, helping John Ziegler pay for a lawsuit, shouting from
the rooftops against this blatant and
disgusting and downright frightening abridgement of the First
Amendment. Watch this video for yourself. Now THIS is
authoritarism run amuck. In it, Ziegler good-naturedly tries to
wait outside a hall, with camera in tow, while Katie Couric is
given the Cronkite Award for supposed excellence in journalism.
(We'll set aside the obvious note that this is like naming
Frankenstein as the next "Miss America.") And there, outside a
gathering of journalists, this journalist is handcuffed and
dragged rather roughly across a sidewalk, for no good discernible
reason, because he was laughing and as unthreatening as a
dachsund puppy.
Watch it for yourself. Feel your blood boil. This is quite
literally the sort of thing that calls for a public rebuke from
the highest levels of both journalism AND government. For that
matter, I wonder what Ms. Couric thinks of this. If she has even
an ounce of integrity, she too will denounce the treatment of Mr.
Ziegler. Fat chance.
