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Vicente
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2012 Nov 28, 5:55am
Juan's core polemic is pointedly ignorant horseshit.
Look, he works for large entity which makes money. Whether it's NPR or it's Fox News, they own the microphone. You do or say something that offends your employer's sensibilities, you are history.
You want absolute "free speech" without worrying about getting fired, then buy your own microphone.
Pretending otherwise is like he's just discovered something everyone else has known since the beginnings of mass media. You think a reporter employed by William Randolph Hearst wrote any stories about the wonders of hemp?
curious2
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2012 Nov 28, 6:03am
You think a reporter employed by William Randolph Hearst wrote any stories about the wonders of hemp?
This question reminds me of a famous story about Hearst, which even Orson Welles acknowledged by presenting it in the movie Citizen Kaine. Hearst fell in love with a talented Vaudeville-type comedic showgirl named Marion Davies, and he pressured her to sing serious opera which seemed to him more dignified. A Hearst theater critic, who was also a drunkard, wrote a scathing review but passed out at his desk, missing his deadline. Hearst completed the negative review and ran it, then fired the writer for being drunk on the job and missing the deadline. Hearst was also famous for dinner parties at San Simeon where he invited people who disagreed totally about everything.
Bap33
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2012 Nov 28, 7:02am
You want absolute "free speech" without worrying about getting fired, then buy your own microphone.
100% correct.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307952010/?tag=patricknet-20
An account of how Juan Williams got fired from NPR just for publicly saying that he felt uncomfortable sitting next to obviously Muslims people on airplanes. He didn't even say it on NPR! Shows how political correctness stifles debate -- and how the right wing does it too, maybe even more so.