Do NFL Players Have Right of Free Speech? No! (Vanity)

Look, this is precisely the same as the old flag burning issue. And as that case should have made plain, the people burning the flags were irrelevant - you or I could buy a case of flags and secretly burn them in our back yard with no public consequence whatever - but the people televising the demonstration which are the issue. From the dead-tree Wall St. Journal:
[owner of ESPN] Disney needs to remember that the culture of sports is fundamentally celebratory and unifying, not divisive. - Holman W. Jenkins
So-callled “liberalism” is precisely the opposite of that. ESPN has as much right to promote “liberalism” as MSNBC does. And you or I can watch/listen, or we can decide that ESPN is not delivering "the culture of sports” - and go rearrange our sock drawers in preference.

61 posted on 09/25/2017 7:21:17 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)

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