From: Loree Thomas (loreetg@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 16:01:52 MST
--- Michael Lorrey <mike@datamann.com> wrote:
> Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> > No, What Heston did was call Time-Warner on
> profiteering on Ice-T's
> > song. He called into question their ethics.
>
> Quite. Ice-T was not once told to stop rapping.
> Time-Warner was told by
> its stockholders that they didn't want to
> Time-Warner to profit from the
> promotion of illegal activities like cop killing and
> the statutory anal
> rape of Al Gore's 12 year old nieces. Publisher's
> do, in fact, have the
> free speech right to choose what they publish.
They certainly do! And Time/Warner was exercising
that right when they published "Cop Killers".
Heston took it upon himself to use the tactic of
PCness to stop Time/Warner from continuing to
associate with Ice-T. I have no qualms with
Time/Warner's actions or the actions of the Board of
Directors. My point is that Chuck used PCness and
BRAGGED about in an anti PC speech.
This is what makes PCness so powerful... when it is in
alightment with your (general case) own values, you
don't even think of it as "PCness". It's only when
your values are different from the current PC values
that it becomes "thought control".
Loree
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