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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (181160)	2/5/2006 12:12:14 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The question is not to the point. The newspaper should apologize for printing offensive material. Why? Your rights under freedom of the press do not include the right not to be offended. they don't exist in the main stream media today. You already said that newspaper is not mainstream media so how does that apply? Look to recent US history for examples of such actions, Time and Newsweek, have recently(in the past 10-15 years) apologized for similar publications. Back in the 60's cartoons depicting Blacks in a negative light were common You are aware, are you not, that there is still a fringe press in this country that regularly publishes such material? kkk.com Want some that publshes anti-Semitic articles? Go find a few of Emile Vidrine's posts. While I disagree strongly with their content, I disagree still more strongly that the gov't should have a right to muzzle them. Such a right by a gov't is dangerous in a democracy. What happened to the marketplace of ideas? In it, ideas such as those espoused by the KKK, the neoNazis, and the anti-Muslims are thrown out as absurd and not representational of the "enemy" they portray.