Fw: Censorship at the National Press Club

[/ dave /]

Dennis wrote:
 
> An outpost of the Liberal Press protects one of its own.
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> DP
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> > Censorship at the National Press Club
> > By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

The Press Club can be emailed at info at press.org (though they don't make
that terribly obvious on their web page).

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/  dave  /


Date:  Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:55:50 -0500
From:  arouet at winternet.com
Organization:  fnast!
To:  info at press.org

To Mr. Koonce -

I'm afraid you did the public a disservice and betrayed the precepts of
the profession of journalism in your effort to avoid discomfiting Mr.
Kissinger after his speech by deliberately dispensing with questions
that are profoundly relevant and so *obvious* at the present time as to
be absurd in their omission - issues that are absolutely central to Mr.
Kissinger's relation to the world at large. I believe your error in
judgement will stand out in glaring fashion in due time, and perhaps
then you'll come to your senses and realize what a tremendous error in
judgement you've made. To be sure, one National Press Club event does
not history make or break, and if one were feeling the least bit
charitable towards you (if one were, say, your mother or father) one
might secretly hope the incident would be quietly consigned to to the
endless chain of forgotten events of the past. Unfortunately for you,
there is a great deal more at stake here for innumerable citizens of the
world who cannot forget their past, a past undoubtedly shaped in no
small way by the hand of Mr. Kissinger. You would do well to think of
your obligations to them and others like them the next time you're given
a similar opportunity.

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