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...hard to believe that the TV academy yielded to the Catholic League and censored Kathy Griffin's Emmy Awards speech because she said she didn't thank Jesus Christ [Sept. 24]. It is a very painful reminder that we are losing our democratic freedom of religion, speech and the press and are moving toward a dictatorship in which organized religion controls what we hear and see. Next, the Catholic League will censor the media from reporting sex crimes by priests and the resulting multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Alton Hardman Altus, Okla...
...anchorman. I am a First Amendment guy. In a statement after Diana's death, I said the only thing worse than out-of-control photographers with no sense of conscience would be trying to restrict them. You can't restrict freedom of speech or the press, even if it is miserable...
...Chinese company with a conscience? That runs counter to the world's current impression of the corner-cutting Chinese manufacturer that saves a buck by using lead-based paint on children's toys or that bars employees from bathroom breaks. Yet as bad press surrounding China Inc. grows, so does the number of mainland companies trying to improve their image through good works. While the corporate social responsibility movement in China is still small, it has some big names behind it. PC manufacturer Lenovo began a computer-recycling service last year. White-goods maker Haier has donated nearly $400 million...
...latest firestorm in college football was sparked two weeks ago, when Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy unexpectedly utilized his post-game press conference following an impressive win by the Cowboys over Texas Tech to go ballistic on local sports columnist Jenni Carlson. Carlson had penned a column in The Oklahoman suggesting that recently demoted OSU quarterback Bobby Reid had failed to demonstrate enough toughness—citing an observed incident of Reid being fed chicken by his mother as an off-the-field parallel—as a signal-caller before his benching. In the Gundy?...
...Most importantly, though, Iran is in a far stronger position to press for its terms than North Korea was. North Korea is an economic basket case with nukes; Iran doesn't yet have nukes, but it is one of the world's top five oil exporters, and its regional influence has grown exponentially as a result of the removal of two of its key enemies, Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, and by virtue of its defiance of the U.S. In short, Iran is far from desperate to deal right now, and it would be inclined to make Washington...