Posted on 09/30/2004 10:32:35 AM PDT by kingattax
You took the words right out of my mouth! It's just like these musicians like Moby and Elton John complaining about censorship! How then did I come to know about their whining then? Because it was censored? There is a difference between censorship and plain old popular-rejection.
They should do something useful. Cancel their subscriptions. Put them out of business.
What a jackass. He's free to express his opinion, and others are free to express their opinions that he's an idiot....
"It really appears to be me that we no longer live in an open society," he said. "When you get to the point where you can't express an opinion, then you're in trouble."
These guys NEVER get it do they? Sure you're free to say whatever you want. And your customers are free to do whatever they want. And, as a result, you're free to ride your little paper right into the ground. Isn't America great?
This guy is just some aging hippy who ran an underground paper when he was in school. If it goes under, it'll cost him everything he has......about $125.00.
What they want is the right to force us to suppport their crap, and pay their paychecks, even if they print outright lies and anti american propaganda... they feel that 'freedom of speech' should mean that they have a RIGHT to being paid for attacking the USA, by the citizens of the same USA.
Anything that makes them accountable to their advertisers, readers, a general sense of truth and balance, or face repercussions of an economic nature for doing the 'wrong' thing, journalistically speaking, is 'outright censorship' to their way of thinking.
they not only want to attack and protest, they expect US to pay their way... stfu.
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