It's always difficult when taking a poll like this to make sure that you aren't picking up vibes that people do want to send, but that might not fit with your poll's agenda. If some pollster called me up and asked me whether I favor freedom of the press, I might say 'no' just to help throw a little scare into Howard Raines. I don't have a lot of ways to do that, so if a pollster comes by and hands me a stick, I might hit him with it just for fun. |
Good point, Nick. One has to wonder what their real agenda is. Some people wail over the supposed erosion of rights, but really the only thing being eroded today are the interpretations which some have as to what the Bill of Rights says. I fully support the 1st Amendment and see no contradiction to wanting to re-ban pornography, for instance. Images of people copulating are not protected speech, as the Founders would have agreed. The issue of tenure should be raised. We have seen far too many academics proselytise insurrection and moral-liberalism to our future leaders, and removing tenure from college professors isn't a free speech issue. Again, we see the ACLU communist types hiding behind the Constitution they abhor. You can bet that the "Center for Survey Research & Analysis at the University of Connecticut for the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center" will never raise issues about mandated politically-correct speech on campus, since it may not fit into their agenda.
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On November 21, 1992, Al Neuharth wrote in his USA Today column:This week, after the flap over a federal judge reinstating a homosexual sailor, we asked two prime sources how many homosexuals presently serve in the military. Answer: Defense Department spokesmen, officially zero. The Homosexual and Lesbian Task Force says an estimated 10 percent, about 180,000.
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Neuharth Calls Patriotism FilthNeuharth then makes the unprecedented claim that Nationalism on the Internet is worse than pornography. "Concerned about your children's easy access to pornography on the home computer? Wait until you check out ... white supremacists," says reporter John Hanchette.
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USA Today founder Al Neuharth in his June 20 column:What if Watergate had elected McGovern?.... The Cold War would have ended in the '70s rather than in the '90s. McGovern, in his campaign, debunked the threat and invincibility of the so-called evil Soviet empire. Republican and Democratic Presidents preached that myth for four decades, until the USSR self-destructed.... George McGovern. A man before his time. Prescient. Decisive, but decent. The USA and the world would have been far better off if we'd been heedful of his early Watergate warnings and had put McGovern in the White House in 1972.
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"When you run a picture of a nice clean-cut all-American girl like this, get her tits above the fold."-- Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today, at a page-one meeting
Freedom entails responsibility. I'm always amused by press editorials that bemoan the fact that people are increasingly willing to see the press muzzled... this while the press itself discloses secret war plans and acts like the house organ for one political party that half of the people regularly vote against.