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...First Amendment if "to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." But in 1973 he conceded that all such vague wording led only to "hopeless confusion." He recently told New Yorker writer Nat Hentoff, "I finally gave up. If you can't define it, you can't prosecute people...
...government to contain freedom of speech. What Donald Wildmon, the free-lance moralist from Tupelo, Miss., does when he gets Pepsi to cancel its Madonna ad is censure the ad by calling for a boycott. Advocating boycotts is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. As Nat Hentoff, journalistic custodian of the First Amendment, says, "I would hate to see boycotts outlawed. Think what that would do to Cesar Chavez." Or, for that matter, to Ralph Nader. If one disapproves of a social practice, whether it is racist speech or unjust hiring in lettuce fields, one is free...
Since then, Bloom has played the major Jazz Festivals and recorded several albums, including one with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell which won a five-star rating from Downbeat. Critic Nat Hentoff places her in Duke Ellington's "beyond category" category...
...monster, but he gave us complete freedom." The new boss promises the same, at least for now. "I respect the niche of the Voice, and I'm going to give them total independence, which is the only way they can flourish," Stern told TIME. Columnist Nat Hentoff nonetheless reserves judgment. "Sooner or later, there is going to be an article that goes against one of his cherished beliefs -- we don't know what they...
...many attributed the decision to run the tapes to baser motives, and wondered what purpose had been served by not waiting for the trial. Nat Hentoff, a New York City journalist and longtime First Amendment defender, charges that CBS's purpose was "titillation and sensationalism," an example of how the "scoop syndrome sometimes becomes a disease." Concludes Hentoff: "They have every right to do it, but they ought to be ashamed of themselves...