Censoring Naomi Riley - A Most Ironic Article from National Review Online

This is a fine article, as usual from John Fund, but just one month ago NRO was guilty of similar behavior that is the subject here: fear of being called racist for merely uttering today's sacred and unspeakable truths! m/r

Censoring Naomi Riley - John Fund - National Review Online

May 12, 2012   By John Fund 

She was fired for having the courage to state the obvious.

Oslo— The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual event sponsored by the New York–based Human Rights Foundation, which  brings together dissidents and journalists from all over the world to show that people of good will can promote basic freedoms without an overlay of ideology. 

Censorship, both official and self-imposed, is an important theme here. We have heard stories from brave journalists such as Ecuador’s Nicolas Perez and Kosovo’s Jeta Xharra of efforts to silence them for expressing views unpopular with officials or special interests. So it was strange to be here and read that one of my friends and former journalistic colleagues back home in the U.S. has been fired merely for speaking her mind....

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The Internet’s reach being what it is, a remarkable number of the 400 people attending the Oslo Freedom Forum this week were fully informed of the Riley firing. It obviously paled in comparison to the brutal actions of dictators and vicious torture of dissidents that were featured during the Forum’s panels. But nonetheless it was embarrassing for me, as an American, to admit to foreigners that our country has slipped into a soft censorship on certain taboo subjects. After Riley’s firing, I have no doubt there will be fewer people brave enough to challenge that censorship.

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