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...Hernandez's apology in the Daily Californian was itself criticized by people who felt the papers had thrown their lot with censorship. Washington Post columnist Jonathan Yardley wrote on Monday that "what those editors did in California last week deserves no sympathy...
...interview yesterday, Horowitz criticized the California papers for apologizing and said other papers' decisions not to run his ad amounted to "censorship...
...fasting, because what is happening in Burma is so horrendous I cannot even imagine what it's like," wrote Julia Earl, a student at Emory University in Atlanta, in an e-mail. "When there is torture, forced labor, censorship, destruction of the environment, and killing, something has to be done; these are the conditions in Burma, so I cannot sit around and do nothing...
However, I was even more dismayed to learn that the BSA has responded by calling for an official University censure. While their decision to actively protest Mansfield's lectures was laudable, we should all remember that, when it is delivered from official hands to squash heterodox opinion, "censureship" is censorship. In houses of learning, we resolve disagreements through the public exchange of ideas--not by administrative decree...
Rowling's books have bridged political and cultural chasms; they have altered publishing industries; they have even spurred censorship moves by some religious fundamentalists. But any assessment of her extraordinary impact should focus principally on the private transaction, as old as storytelling, between the speaker and the listener or, a more recent innovation, the writer and the reader...