Focus (Forum & Focus)
May 2, 2007
Off the Market?
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - When Don Imus or some other voice goes silent because hardly anyone cares to listen any more to what he has to say, that is the opposite of censorship. That is an example of free speech.
By Peter Scheer
Don Imus may be gone, guilty of one too many assaults on his audience's sensitivities and sensibilities, but outrage over racist shock talk in the mass media continues to build, with hip-hop the most likely and most deserving next target. If bitches, "hos" and the N-word were to disappear from the public vocabulary, would freedom of speech be the ultimate casualty?
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