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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines9/03/2009 1:42:52 pm PDT

re: #142 unrealizedviewpoint

Yes. it’s called the 1st Amendment. And govt control of the public airwaves doesn’t give govt the right to silence anyone just because they don’t like the message.

Again, the government has nothing to do with this. Broadcasters can pull the plug on their own shows any time they like, and for any reason they like.
When I was a newspaper editor, fuzzy-minded types would sometimes write in to complain that I was guilty of “censorship” for not running whatever they thought I should run. If I couldn’t decide what appeared in my own paper, what had beome of my rights or my publisher’s rights? Who did get to decide what we published? The tooth fairy?