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July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.

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Editor, Times-Union:

The following is my definition for freedom of the media and the sources of information that I used in developing this definition. Most of those sources are available at the Warsaw Community Public Library for those readers of the Times-Union interested in doing further research on their own.

Booklist for further information:

1. Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints

2. Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints Digests

3. Censorship: Lucent Overview Series

4. Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies

5. Censorship

6. An American Paradox: Censorship in a Nation of Free Speech

7. Is it Unpatriotic to Criticize One's Country?

8. Freedom of the Mind: A Reasoned and Eloquent Exposition of Basic American Liberties

9. Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining Cases

10. Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars

11. The Reference Shelf: Censorship in the Untied States

12. Encyclopedia Brittanica

13. Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion: World War II: An Allied and Axis Visual Record, 1933-1945

14. First Amendment to the US Constitution

15. America's Libertarian Heritage: The Politics of Freedom

16. Times-Union Statement of Principles

17. The European Convention on Human Rights (1950)

Definition of freedom in the media: Freedom of the media is the inalienable right of each person, whether alone or with others, to peacefully, openly, freely and with respect for the rights of others use the various means of mass communication for the purposes of advertisement, entertainment, education, enlightenment, critical analysis, debate, information, investigation and independent forums dedicated to the diversity of thought, opinion, knowledge and creativity; and for each person to be free from having acts incorporating the mass media sector into the apparatus of the state, the silencing of independent media outlets through subjugation or closure, and the formation of a state media agency for the purpose of manipulation the hearts and minds of the masses through propaganda and censorship inflicted upon them by any part or whole of any local, state, national, continental or world government.

Alexander Houze

Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]

Editor, Times-Union:

The following is my definition for freedom of the media and the sources of information that I used in developing this definition. Most of those sources are available at the Warsaw Community Public Library for those readers of the Times-Union interested in doing further research on their own.

Booklist for further information:

1. Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints

2. Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints Digests

3. Censorship: Lucent Overview Series

4. Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies

5. Censorship

6. An American Paradox: Censorship in a Nation of Free Speech

7. Is it Unpatriotic to Criticize One's Country?

8. Freedom of the Mind: A Reasoned and Eloquent Exposition of Basic American Liberties

9. Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining Cases

10. Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars

11. The Reference Shelf: Censorship in the Untied States

12. Encyclopedia Brittanica

13. Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion: World War II: An Allied and Axis Visual Record, 1933-1945

14. First Amendment to the US Constitution

15. America's Libertarian Heritage: The Politics of Freedom

16. Times-Union Statement of Principles

17. The European Convention on Human Rights (1950)

Definition of freedom in the media: Freedom of the media is the inalienable right of each person, whether alone or with others, to peacefully, openly, freely and with respect for the rights of others use the various means of mass communication for the purposes of advertisement, entertainment, education, enlightenment, critical analysis, debate, information, investigation and independent forums dedicated to the diversity of thought, opinion, knowledge and creativity; and for each person to be free from having acts incorporating the mass media sector into the apparatus of the state, the silencing of independent media outlets through subjugation or closure, and the formation of a state media agency for the purpose of manipulation the hearts and minds of the masses through propaganda and censorship inflicted upon them by any part or whole of any local, state, national, continental or world government.

Alexander Houze

Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]
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