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I rant a lot. A not-too-inaccurate portrait of me would include waving arms and exclamations — let’s face it, I like to take a stand and ruffle feathers. But few things get me as flustered as infringing on the press freedoms of my peers — and that group is without age limits.
Ever since I heard about The Cyclone Scoop incident I wanted to help in some way, whether that be by writing editorials, re-running their articles or paying to print their entire newspaper and distribute it ourself. The argument, at the heart of Hazelwood , that children are somehow less entitled to freedoms than adults always has struck me as hypocritical — I take that view into the debate of the press freedoms of my “junior” colleagues.
For me, there is no danger in allowing press freedoms to any publication whatever the age of its publisher. Sure, those people might print something risque, something in bad taste and something that is less than quality journalism, but is that age specific? Are we to piece-meal protect against inappropriate journalism by cutting the industry up into age groups, to which varying degrees of freedom apply.
I am a political science major and constitutional law has been a hobby of mine. Reading Supreme Court cases about restricted rights in the name of “protecting the children” always has troubled me. Sure, we have a right to protect our children — we want to educate them. But does not that education carry with it the responsibility to teach them of all the things they can enjoy, at least in this country?
Yes, I’m naive. Yes, I’m idealistic. But I put a great deal of trust in the process of things — the natural settling of information. If someone reads or hears something that is inappropriate, I trust that they can reject or accept that information; they can decide to react or trust the marketplace of ideas.
Let’s leave the marketplace unfettered and call a spade a spade, or, in this case, an amendment an amendment. “Shall make no law that abridges” does not go on to break that liberty down by maturity level.
Shame on the Smith officials and everyone of you, I’m looking at a few of you letter writers here, for the dirtiness of this whole incident. I’m sticking to the process — in the name of the very children you hurt in the name of protection.
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