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- From: pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
- Subject: Re: To boycott is not to censor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.173229.2009@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <lk6up0INN5q5@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1993Jan1.172113.13999@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan2.224336.24949@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1993Jan3.054818.29198@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 17:32:29 GMT
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- orc@vpnet.chi.il.us (david parsons) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan2.224336.24949@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> dlaro@lonestar.utsa.edu (David O. Laro) writes:
- >|What? Let him print what ever he wants in *his* newspaper or magazine?
- >|Hey, if only _you_ have a newspaper or magazine, you have denied access.
- >|Sounds a lot like "let them eat cake!" to me. Indeed, I guess everybody
- >|has a magazine or newspaper at his disposal.
-
- > There's really never been any precedent for forcing the media to
- >print things it doesn't want to. There's a moderately famous quote
- >about that; something along the lines of "freedom of the press is
- >for those who own one."
-
- You don't need to own one. You can get anything you want printed up
- for 8 cents a page at Kinko's. Less, if you want to do it in volume.
- Just as Guttenburg made everyone a reader, Xerox made everyone an
- author.
-
- What? You say you have the right to print whatever you want for FREE?
- Goodness, not even the editor of the New York Times has that right!
- If the NYT has to pay for ink, paper, and labor, why shouldn't anyone
- else who wants to print something?
-
-
- Paul Ciszek When we are planning for posterity, we
- ought to remember that virtue is not
- pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu hereditary. --Thomas Paine
-