Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!crm From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.motss Subject: Re: Corrupting youth: Conservative [sic.] Campus Tabloids Message-ID: <4934@duke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 12:02:25 EDT Article-I.D.: duke.4934 Posted: Thu Oct 18 12:02:25 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 12:46:15 EDT References: <1039@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Duke University Lines: 29 I agree, it all sounds pretty awful. Those damned "conservatives" ought to be made to close up shop, or we'll lock them up! Being a libertarian (note the small 'l', please) and a Republican and a student of Jefferson, Paine, and Mill (even SOUNDS like a law firm), I would like to note that: 1) no matter WHO funded them, and no matter WHAT they're saying these newpapers have the right to publish ANYTHING THEY DAMNED WELL PLEASE! 2) the reporterial (sp?) tactics you mention (concealed tapes -- consider "60 Minute's" concealed cameras) have been used at some length by liberal (statist-on-the-left) press, and I've not heard of any trials against them... 3) Anyone on the net advocating ANY form of censorship or punishment or harassment (a class-action suit sounds pretty close to that, no?) should -- a) get someone to post them the hassles Tim Moroney had with net censors, and b) remember that, if you can do it to them, they can do it to you. Well, I tried to keep from flaming... Charlie Martin "Write in NOBODY! NOBODY could be better!"