The President Needs Me At The White

Education Is Being Redefined At The Demand Of The Uneducated To Suit The Ideas Of The Uneducated. The Student Now Goes To College To Proclaim, Rather Than To Learn.

I Am Not Asking For Government Censorship Or Any Other Kind Of Censorship. I Am Asking Whether A Kind Of Censorship Already Exists When The News That Forty Million Americans Receive Each Night Is Determined By A Handful Of Men Responsible Only To Their Corporate Employers And Filtered Through A Handful Of Commentators Who Admit To Their Own Set Of Biases.

There Are People In Our Society Who Should Be Separated And Discarded.

If A Theology Student In Lowa Should Get Up At A Pta Luncheon In Sioux City And Attack The President's Military Policy, My Guess Is That You Would Probably Find It Reported Somewhere The Next Morning In The New York Times. But When 300 Congressmen Endorse The President's Policy, The Next Morning It Is Apparently Not Considered News Fit To Print.

Every Time I Criticize What I Consider To Be Excesses Or Faults In The News Business, I Am Accused Of Repression; And The Leaders Of The Various Media Professional Groups Wave The First Amendment As They Denounce Me. That Happens To Be My Amendment Too. It Guarantees My Free Speech As Much As It Does Their Freedom Of The Press.