Freedom Of Speech Is Useless Without Freedom

Listening To Democrats Complain About Inflation Is Like Listening To Germs Complain About Disease.

Bad News Drives Out Good News. The Irrational Is More Controversial Than The Rational. Concurrence Can No Longer Compete With Dissent. One Minute Of Eldridge Cleaver Is Worth Ten Minutes Of Roy Wilkins. The Labor Crises Settled At The Negotiating Table Is Nothing Compared To The Confrontation That Results In A Strike ... Normality Has Become The Nemesis Of Network News.

The Lessons Of The Past Are Ignored And Obliterated In A Contemporary Antagonism Known As The Generation Gap.

Some Of The Politicians In This Country, In Their Feverish Search For Group Acceptance, Are Ready To Endorse Tumultuous Confrontation As A Substitute For Debate, And The Most Illogical And Unfitting Extensions Of The Bill Of Rights As Protections For Psychotic And Criminal Elements In Our Society.... We Have Seen All Too Clearly That There Are Men - Now In Power In This Country - Who Do Not Represent Authority, Who Cannot Cope With Tradition, And Who Believe That The People Of America Are Ready To Support Revolution As Long As It Is Done With A Cultured Voice And A Handsome Profile.

Every Time I Criticize What I Consider To Be Excesses Or Faults In The News Business, I Am Accused Of Repression; And The Leaders Of The Various Media Professional Groups Wave The First Amendment As They Denounce Me. That Happens To Be My Amendment Too. It Guarantees My Free Speech As Much As It Does Their Freedom Of The Press.