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Griff · 03-08-2002, 07:25 AM

I am a free speech "absolutest". Rall has every right to point out something we've all noticed but have decided to leave alone. Having opened the discussion, he has to be willing to take the heat (and I expect he is), because everyone else has the same right. To me, the real terror widows are the whores in the media who stick a microphone in the face of someone who is unable to deal with loss in what most of us see as an acceptable manner. I won't stop them from doing it but I won't watch it either.

The media censor themselves every day in their desire to provide content to their readers or listeners, without alienating them. If Rall wants his cartoon published he has to find (and has found) an outlet willing to take the heat, thats the beauty of letting the markets for content decide who or what gets heard, especially in the internet era. By extension, this why government should not be in the content business, whether its media or museums it gives unnatural weight, to ideas which may be of limited value, by using confiscated money rather than money exchanged. More important stories than this one get swept under the rug but as long as its not the force of government doing the sweeping, I have no arguement with it. I say let the "pansies" choose their own content.

I find it refreshing that people still feel protective of the 911 victims, hopefully our empathy will also be extended to the victims of our empires terror.

03-08-2002, 07:25 AM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I am a free speech "absolutest". Rall has every right to point out something we've all noticed but have decided to leave alone. Having opened the discussion, he has to be willing to take the heat (and I expect he is), because everyone else has the same right. To me, the real terror widows are the whores in the media who stick a microphone in the face of someone who is unable to deal with loss in what most of us see as an acceptable manner. I won't stop them from doing it but I won't watch it either. The media censor themselves every day in their desire to provide content to their readers or listeners, without alienating them. If Rall wants his cartoon published he has to find (and has found) an outlet willing to take the heat, thats the beauty of letting the markets for content decide who or what gets heard, especially in the internet era. By extension, this why government should not be in the content business, whether its media or museums it gives unnatural weight, to ideas which may be of limited value, by using confiscated money rather than money exchanged. More important stories than this one get swept under the rug but as long as its not the force of government doing the sweeping, I have no arguement with it. I say let the "pansies" choose their own content. I find it refreshing that people still feel protective of the 911 victims, hopefully our empathy will also be extended to the victims of our empires terror.