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9/11’s free speech casualties
9/11’s free speech casualties - Los Angeles Times
Two journalists who questioned Bush’s leadership weeks after the attacks lost their jobs and faced threats.
April 19, 2007
ALL THE INK and the airtime that’s been expended on Don Imus being fired for saying something controversial and stupid got me thinking about two other media guys — working stiffs, not multimillionaires; professional informers, not inflamers — who got fired for saying something controversial and wise.
Imus was canned after he slagged a women’s college basketball team. The two newspaper columnists were canned from their small-town papers after the 9/11 attacks for criticizing President Bush.
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