----- Original Message ----- From: "David Honig" <honig@sprynet.com> To: "Jim Choate" <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>; <hell@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>; <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:22 AM Subject: CDR: Re: freedomforum.org: Freedom flees in terror from Sept. 11 disaster

At 11:12 PM 9/19/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:

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http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14924 --

"New York police and members of the National Guard confiscated film from journalists and tourists."

I haven't heard of this (except of video of palestinians partying in palestine). Any other reports of blatant domestic censorship?

Walter Cronkite was on CBS Early Morning today and spoke about the need for a "censorship" forum where representatives from the military, journalists, historians, the private sector broadcasters, etc. would meet and review information gotten from the front lines of the new conflict and control the timelines for distribution of such information to ensure both national security, security of troops, and preservation of history. I've gotten an email recently that he was speaking on the same topic on the west coast yesterday. I don't have much more information on this and welcome any other input... Cronkite is an advisor for MediaChannel.org which has the following section: http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ Here's a text from Walter Cronkite on Feb 3, 2000 which appears to counter his recent advocacies: http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/cronkite.shtml <snip> I'm particularly excited about one aspect of the Media's Channel's work: its encouragement to people inside the media to speak up-to speak out about their own experiences. Corporate censorship is just as dangerous as government censorship, you know, and self-censorship can be the most insidious form of pulling punches. Pressures to go along, to get along, or to place the needs of advertisers or companies above the public's need for reliable information distort a free press and threaten democracy itself. </snip> ymmv, C.G. -- gomes@navigo.com Carlos Macedo Gomes _sic itur ad astra_ 1/1;