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| Dear Editor,
Growing up in a media
fam»ly. with a grandfather
; : who ran • newspaper and a
c fattier who ran a tetaviaion'
station, I got a pretty good
dose of the Pint Amend
ment at the family dinner
| table. Both men held strong
views, expressed them
forcefully, and suffered op
, pasingyiews with patience
approaching Job’s.
Scene ideas they fe(t
(* articulate, bat wrong.
Some foolish, hot wrong,'
Some threatening, but
wrong.
t. fSwmoversy and anger
swirled around the family
because ideas and view
points were forcefully ad
vanced of: defended. Im
portant and imimportan* .
people ; thought - them
wrong. And even the pur
veyors of -small-minded-,
ness never suggested that
So I grew up in the
' American tradition - you
; Lean have^n, idea and «
' press it and ydur rieigh
bor can have an idea and'
express if. And I grew up
and I went to Wfark for,*,
It’s not to^dfeimilaTto
the family dinner table;
freedom of expression,
freedom of choice, and in
formed populace.
And now in the name of .
the common good the doc
tors have decreed that the
tobacco companies’ free
dom of expression must be
sileqeed. "Silence them
and we will have Utopia” i
has been the shrill cry Of ‘
the small-minded through .
the centuries. -ii> irl
i They tried to silenee
Frederick Douglass . Thank
God they tailed. :
They tried to silence 3
Harriet Tubman. Thank i
God they failed ' J
They tried to silence
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