LaRouche

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Mon Sep 20 16:09:03 PDT 1999


I think Doug's answer is pretty common sensical in the good sense of the word. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with whether Doug wishes to have Lyndon Larouche on his program. References to it in this case do nothing but cheapen the value of that concept.

Steve

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Adam Stevens wrote:
>
> >Well, it's your show, but I think you should let him on. It sounds
> >like you're deciding to censor him for political reasons (not wanting to
> >give him publicity) and that strikes a bad note with me given all we've been
> >through here in Berkeley these past few months.
>
> An editor/producer is under no obligation to offer balance. I make
> political judgments all the time in over content. I have on a lot
> more centrists & rightwingers than centrists & rightwingers have me
> on. I just don't want to promote the Lyndon LaRouche for president
> campaign.
>
> Doug
>
>



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