Freedom of speech only implies freedom ... ONLY when people also take the responsibility to follow with freedom in action.

Thats the problem. Not enough people acting. Lots of people talking, but not many people acting for fear of losing comfort...

well I hear those torture cells are nice and comfy... Gads I think its sad listening to people saying... oh being water boarded isnt torture... lets see them go thru it day in day out, and then say its not torture...

Peace and Freedom

After all if the US government doesn't want you to have it anymore, it must be something worth having.

Casey
casey kochmer | Homepage | 09.29.06 - 6:35 pm | #

This is one of the best explanations I have ever found for why we have had bias in the news media.

"I'd bet that if you hooked Dan and Tom and Peter up to a lie detector and asked them if there's a liberal bias on their newscasts, they'd all say ‘no’ and they'd all pass the test....That leaves one other possibility. Messrs. Rather, Brokaw and Jennings don't even know what liberal bias is. I concede this is hard to believe, but I'm convinced it's why we keep getting these ridiculous denials....The problem is that Mr. Rather and the other evening stars think that liberal bias means just one thing: going hard on Republicans and easy on Democrats. But real media bias comes not so much from what party they attack. Liberal bias is the result of how they see the world.... And it is this inability to see liberal views as liberal that is at the heart of the entire problem. This is why Phyllis Schlafly is the conservative woman who heads that conservative organization but Patricia Ireland is merely the head of NOW. No liberal labels necessary. Robert Bork is the conservative judge. Laurence Tribe is the noted Harvard law professor.... Conservatives must be identified because the audience needs to know these are people with axes to grind. But liberals don't need to be identified because their views on all the big social issues -- from abortion and gun control to the death penalty and affirmative action -- aren't liberal views at all. They're simply reasonable views, shared by all the reasonable people the media elites mingle with at all their reasonable dinner parties in Manhattan and Georgetown...." — Former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg, Wall Street Journal op-ed, "On Media Bias, Network Stars Are Rather Clueless," May 24, 2001.
susieq | Homepage | 09.30.06 - 6:08 pm | #