Comments on: The Media’s Right to Offend http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/10/14/the-medias-right-to-offend/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:35:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Scott Gilbreath http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/10/14/the-medias-right-to-offend/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Scott Gilbreath Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:54:48 +0000 http://www.novascotiascott.com/?p=341#comment-75 MAUS, Thanks for the very interesting historical background. You could be right, but I think that, with Ezra on the panel, the symposium will be a focussed debate from differing viewpoints. Xanthippa, Good point. Very true. MAUS, Thanks for the very interesting historical background. You could be right, but I think that, with Ezra on the panel, the symposium will be a focussed debate from differing viewpoints.

Xanthippa, Good point. Very true.

]]> By: Steynian 270 « Free Canuckistan! http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/10/14/the-medias-right-to-offend/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Steynian 270 « Free Canuckistan! Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:46:02 +0000 http://www.novascotiascott.com/?p=341#comment-71 [...] EZRA EVENT! “The 6th annual Joseph Howe Symposium will be held on Saturday, 1 November, at University of [...] [...] EZRA EVENT! “The 6th annual Joseph Howe Symposium will be held on Saturday, 1 November, at University of [...]

]]> By: Xanthippa http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/10/14/the-medias-right-to-offend/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Xanthippa Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:45:31 +0000 http://www.novascotiascott.com/?p=341#comment-69 While I wholeheartedly support the 'media's right to offend', I think there is an even greater issue at play here: every single Canadian's right to offend!!! We live in an era when 'special dispensations' are allowed for certain elites, while rights are stripped from individuals. And, like it or not, 'the media' ARE an elite!!! I am too far away (and not at liberty to travel now) to attend....please, make sure that the agenda does not become hijacked, so that only 'approved media' might have 'the right to offend', while the rest of us 'common folk' get relegated to an Orwellian nightmare!!! Whatever is allowed each and every citizen will - by extention - be allowed by the media. Let's keep the focus there! While I wholeheartedly support the ‘media’s right to offend’, I think there is an even greater issue at play here: every single Canadian’s right to offend!!!

We live in an era when ’special dispensations’ are allowed for certain elites, while rights are stripped from individuals. And, like it or not, ‘the media’ ARE an elite!!!

I am too far away (and not at liberty to travel now) to attend….please, make sure that the agenda does not become hijacked, so that only ‘approved media’ might have ‘the right to offend’, while the rest of us ‘common folk’ get relegated to an Orwellian nightmare!!!

Whatever is allowed each and every citizen will – by extention – be allowed by the media. Let’s keep the focus there!

]]> By: MAUS http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/10/14/the-medias-right-to-offend/comment-page-1/#comment-66 MAUS Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:08:01 +0000 http://www.novascotiascott.com/?p=341#comment-66 Scott, http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/halifax/exhibit.asp?ID=142 The man in that picture is my father's grandfather. He ghost wrote Joseph Howe's speeches. What is a bigger disappointment than the fact that Mark Mercer will not be participating is the fact that former SMU philosophy professor Peter March (of controversial cartoon fame) will not. I know Peter well. If Jack Layton had been elected last night, in a matter of weeks or months I would have been arrested under 319 of the Criminal Code because of the opinions I have stated on the internet concerning a certain political ideology that we in Canada dare not speak of except in Orwellian endorsement. Judging from the roster of speakers....it will be a propaganda session justifying censorship in the name of political correctness. Scott,

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/halifax/exhibit.asp?ID=142

The man in that picture is my father’s grandfather. He ghost wrote Joseph Howe’s speeches.

What is a bigger disappointment than the fact that Mark Mercer will not be participating is the fact that former SMU philosophy professor Peter March (of controversial cartoon fame) will not.

I know Peter well.

If Jack Layton had been elected last night, in a matter of weeks or months I would have been arrested under 319 of the Criminal Code because of the opinions I have stated on the internet concerning a certain political ideology that we in Canada dare not speak of except in Orwellian endorsement.

Judging from the roster of speakers….it will be a propaganda session justifying censorship in the name of political correctness.

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