Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: trebb
A channel chosing what to and not to broadcast isn't censorship. The government TELLING the channel what to and not to broadcast is censorship.

Every news station makes a couple of these kinds of decisions every minute. They don't just go out in the world with cameras running and broadcast straight form the camera. They discuss, they edit, they pick angles, they decide somethings are just too much. Since there are 3 24/7 networks now you can chose the network who's decisions most closely fit those you would make. But don't confuse editorial control, something the guys that pay the bills have earned the right to do, with censorship. That word is getting WAY over used in the last few years and it's time to remember what it really means: government control. Unless the US government is telling Fox not to show this stuff, it's not censorship, it's editorial control.
8 posted on 08/23/2002 9:36:49 AM PDT by discostu
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: discostu
It's not censorship, it is bad editorial policy.
9 posted on 08/23/2002 9:41:43 AM PDT by Britton J Wingfield
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson