GET REAL!!!!!!!!
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Mike Irwin
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ctdonath:
Mike-
To summarize:
Censorship is not when someone prevents you from using their press.
Censorship is when someone prevents you from using your press.[/quote]
CT,
While I like the concept espoused by your quote, I don't feel that it's entirely accurate. It IS censorship when someone prevents you from using their press, but it's generally legal.
To greatly simplify it, there are two kinds of censorship, active, and passive.
When I was working as a newspaper reporter right out of college my colleagues and I had a VERY interesting discussion one day. Basically, I mentioned that in our own, very passive, manner, were censoring what our subscribers read by picking what went into the newspaper.
That came about because when I started, our desk editor (who picked the wire stories) was from Philadelphia, and there was a decidedly eastern Pennsylvania slant to what went in the daily.
When she went on maternity leave, she was replaced with a woman about the same age, but who was from Pittsburg. The wire fill then took a decidedly western Pennsylvania twist.
In both cases, though, the desk editors (both of whom were present at the time) didn't realize they were doing this!
That passive censorship, and it's unavoidable, unless you want a newspaper that's several hundred pages thick.
What happened to Siggy post was active censorship, and active censorship can happen for good or bad reasons.
In essence, he was prevented from using TFL's press...
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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
Mike-
To summarize:
Censorship is not when someone prevents you from using their press.
Censorship is when someone prevents you from using your press.[/quote]
CT,
While I like the concept espoused by your quote, I don't feel that it's entirely accurate. It IS censorship when someone prevents you from using their press, but it's generally legal.
To greatly simplify it, there are two kinds of censorship, active, and passive.
When I was working as a newspaper reporter right out of college my colleagues and I had a VERY interesting discussion one day. Basically, I mentioned that in our own, very passive, manner, were censoring what our subscribers read by picking what went into the newspaper.
That came about because when I started, our desk editor (who picked the wire stories) was from Philadelphia, and there was a decidedly eastern Pennsylvania slant to what went in the daily.
When she went on maternity leave, she was replaced with a woman about the same age, but who was from Pittsburg. The wire fill then took a decidedly western Pennsylvania twist.
In both cases, though, the desk editors (both of whom were present at the time) didn't realize they were doing this!
That passive censorship, and it's unavoidable, unless you want a newspaper that's several hundred pages thick.
What happened to Siggy post was active censorship, and active censorship can happen for good or bad reasons.
In essence, he was prevented from using TFL's press...
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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
(I'll be glad when General gets back to the way it should be)Mike Irwin
Staff
Everyone I am SO sorry! I thought the system was hanging, it was just churning and churning and churning, so I was just hitting the "stop" key and trying to resent!
AAAARRRRGGGGUUUHHHH!
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