COMMENTARY
Ellis Henican
Censorship '04: Hushing critics
September 12, 2004
Kitty Kelley's new book contains embarrassing tidbits about George W. Bush and his extended family.
Don't bother addressing them! Just pressure the TV networks to cancel the author's interviews!
A new exhibit at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum includes gripping prison photos from Abu Ghraib.
Don't discuss their meaning or debate the war in Iraq! Get busy trying to cancel the exhibit!
A group of veterans buys TV time to smear John Kerry's service in Vietnam.
Don't answer the smears! Don't smear back! Demand the TV ads be thrown off the air!
Welcome to the New Age of Political Censorship, where disagreeable speech isn't greeted the way the Founding Fathers hoped it would be -with more speech. Increasingly these days, it's met with angry shouts of "Silence," "Boycott" and "Shut up." (More)
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