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To: ETERNAL WARMING
“This is censorship,” says one source. “A pressure group has had a major network rip this movie to shreds.”

So that's the definition of censorship: protesting against slander. Okay.

58 posted on 11/02/2003 3:06:11 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
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To: BlessedBeGod
"pressure group" = the citizenry
60 posted on 11/02/2003 3:12:36 AM PST by txrangerette
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To: BlessedBeGod
So that's the definition of censorship: protesting against slander. Okay.

They are so predictable, arn't they. Good point you make.

73 posted on 11/02/2003 3:46:25 AM PST by BJungNan
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To: BlessedBeGod
“This is censorship,” says one source. “A pressure group has had a major network rip this movie to shreds.”

This statement is pure tripe of course. Censorship only happens when the government does it. The fact that SeeBS's viewership objects to this hit piece is not censorship. It's a rare case of the public making a positive value judgement.

But I do like the use of the term "pressure group". It is much more descriptive that "activists", IMHO. A lot of groups out there, especially on the left, exist for the sole purpose of pantomiming exerting pressure while concentrating mostly on fund-raising. I like the term "pressure group" because it strips these groups of the nominal fiction that they are acting to do anything.

212 posted on 11/03/2003 5:58:21 AM PST by gridlock (Rooting for the Yankees means you can say, "We'll get 'em next year!", and mean it!)
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