Quote:
Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer
My comment is that I feel the managers of the TOTV sometimes over react and remove what they deemed was a political statement.. I recently posted a comment that was actually directed as a complaint of the Daily Sun. It seemed that nearly every day there was a political cartoon (sometimes more than one) published . You might be able to guess the person to which the Daily Sun was lampooning. It wasn't the the person or party that upset me, but the fact that readers were being subjected to huge political cartoons on a daily basis.
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The phrase I highlighted red in the quote above is a good example of the point others and I have been trying to make in favor of everyone's freedom of speech being preserved, not squelched.
The commenter seems to think readers should not be "subjected to" "huge" political cartoons daily. To me, it means the commenter thinks he/she should be able to dictate what we should be able to see, read and think about in the newspaper. To me, that is CENSORSHIP.
If the publisher wants to print cartoons that criticize the reader's partisan opposition, that's the publisher's choice (and right, so far). If the consumer wants to fork over their money to buy and read that newspaper, it is the consumer's choice.
Beyond that,
it's nobody else's damn business what partisan slant the paper prints, and it's nobody else's damn business what the consumer
voluntarily buys and reads.
If it
does become the business of a few
to dictate that a publisher/editor cannot publish criticism of the opposing partisan group or leader, we are in big, big trouble in this country! This is
censorship, the key component of a communist regime. I guess that's what some people
want, but that is
tyranny,
and tyranny is what our forefathers fought and died to "protect us" from!!!
What I and other freedom-loving people want us "protected from" is the tyranny of censorship and state-controlled media, by respecting publishers' rights to publish the opinions they want to publish, and by respecting readers' rights to buy and read what they WANT to!