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Confronted With A Choice, The American People Would Choose The Policeman's Truncheon Over The Anarchist's Bomb.

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.

The Era Of Appeasement Must Come To An End. The Political And Social Demands That Dissidents Are Making Of The Universities Do Not Flow From Sound Basic Educational Criteria, But From Strategic Considerations On How To Radicalize The Student Body, Polarize The Campus And Extend The Privileged Enclaves Of Student Power.

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.

I Am Not Asking For Government Censorship Or Any Other Kind Of Censorship. I Am Asking Whether A Kind Of Censorship Already Exists When The News That Forty Million Americans Receive Each Night Is Determined By A Handful Of Men Responsible Only To Their Corporate Employers And Filtered Through A Handful Of Commentators Who Admit To Their Own Set Of Biases.