Somebody tell Angelina Jolie (and the rest of the country) freedom of the press is a U.S. tradition
Don Imus is fired for making stupid remarks in a lame effort to be cool and contemporary. Then a guy whose show name is “Big John� starts a media frenzy in Daytona when he makes cryptic remarks you’d expect a controversial talk-show host to make. Then Broward County (Fla.) commissioners want to stop emergency broadcasts from a radio station because, horror of horrors, the station airs the Rush Limbaugh program.
And now Angelina Jolie wants to tell reporters what they can or cannot ask her.
Did I wake up in Iran? Venezuela?
Is there a world-wide pandemic of anti-freedom-of-expression?
I don’t like everything I see or hear on TV. I remember one night, flipping through channels in a desperate effort to find something (anything!) of merit. It was late and I wasn’t sleepy. Suddenly, somebody named Air Force Amy appeared. Talk about an eye-opener. I didn’t even know her level of naked honesty, and I mean that literally, could air on TV unless you had a password or something. Daily my email accepts messages that ask me if I want a bigger penis when I never had one to start with.
And of course in my never-ending search to amuse and inform my readers, I come across Web site content that sometimes infuriates me.
This morning I woke up in America. And I don’t agree or approve of everything I see, hear or read.
But the minute we stifle the right of others to express themselves, we lose a fundamental human right set forth in the Bill of Rights. This issue is a particular obsession with me; that’s one reason I am writing about it again today.
Jolie has fallen victim to the pandemic afflicting many others around the world. There is not a single country without a free press that’s fit for an American to live in. And you can tell the rest of the world I said that right here.
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June 14th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Give’m hell R Kay B Day! Just an old pal checking in to see if you’re still kicking. (you are!)
June 14th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Now that is a very sweet thing to say to me! (Can’t resist this: Go USC!)–best, Kay