Censorship

Censorship:  Censorship is berated and attacked verbally by proponents
of freedom of expression. Yet these same individuals seek solutions to the
problems needling society. A cause is always sought after and more often than
not one of its causes, “the freedom of expression,” particularly in
television, is not given enough consideration.

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Social Issues

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Censorship

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Censorship is berated and attacked verbally by proponents of freedom of
expression. Yet these same individuals seek solutions to the problems needling
society. A cause is always sought after and more often than not one of its
causes, “the freedom of expression,” particularly in television, is not
given enough consideration.

Our “free speech” and our decisions to act and behave according to how we
see fit is covered under the (#) Amendment(s). However, the First Amendment is
not an excuse to allow networks and their show’s writers to pass on just
anything to the viewing public. Andrew Carnegie himself was a patron of the arts
and thus said in his dedication address at the library of Pittsburgh:

“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and

nothing else…My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have

contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of
the

spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of
Pittsburgh

sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth.”

Imagine the look on Mr. Carnegie’s face if he were to witness the “noblest
possible use of his wealth” going towards not the high-minded art of producing
noteworthy things, but to the produc

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