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To: wildbill
You never needed to post a link to the Huffinton Post. The article you reference is available as an open access research article pdf file.

Is an eclipse described in the Odyessey?"

49 posted on 07/08/2011 10:49:55 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Varda

You’re right. But it took me an hour or so to run it down and post it.

Of course that begs the questions of:

(a) whether the entire academic paper, as opposed to a popularized interpretational article will hold the interests of casual readers and

(b) what possible political contamination could occur to the faithful readers of FR articles, simply by virtue of the fact that a completely apolitical article happened to be posted on an ‘enemy’ website.

I understand when publications don’t permit copyrighted articles to be posted on FR and they are forbidden by agreement.

But establishing a blacklist of organizations that are left-leaning without regard to the content of individual articles but to the organiation alone seems to be a slippery slope? When will articles from the BBC, CBS, ABC or Wikipedia or many left-leaning newspapers like the Houston Chronicle (who aren’t banned by legal agreements) be similarly placed on a list of forbidden organizations?

The problem is that there are literally thousands of enemy media and the moderators can’t know them all so its possible for seditious material to sneak its way in to FR anyway.

I guess my libertarian views that inform my argument on this issue are predicated on a tenet of the college I attended long ago. I believe in “Man’s right to knowledge and the free use thereof.”


53 posted on 07/08/2011 11:58:43 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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