[gfactor]

in capitalism, the boss is the boss, the owner is the owner. when they tell you to shut up or pack up, its their right. that's why you wont see the profit minded capitalist media criticizing capitalism. Some call this "free speech". others call it private tyrannies.

[fourdeuce82d]

"profit minded capitalist media criticizing capitalism..."

Ummm.. New York Times? Time? Newsweek? CBS? ABC? NBC? Hollywood? Brokavich? Silkwood? Norma Rae?

Hello?

[discostu]

What's so tyrannical about it? Let's say I run a periodical and you're one of my columnists. I pay your salary, I pay for your media and I pay for advertising that gets people to buy the magazine and possibly read your column (ie I pay for your audience). My money is the source of everything you have; so you shouldn't put stuff in your column that gets me PO'd. It's not like we're in the age of Hearst anymore. If you really want to write columns that will irritate me go work for somebody else. Or post screeds on the web under a pseudonym. Nobody has a monopoly of communication anymore (not sure they ever did, Hearst sure came close though). Writers have the same recourse as anybody else who works for someone they don't agree with, just because their job is "speech" doesn't give them some magical bye that means they no longer have to make their boss happy; and it shouldn't, they still have a job and as everybody else in America can tell you duty one in any job is make the boss happy.

[William Terrell]

in capitalism, the boss is the boss, the owner is the owner.

Until he, say, wants to hire only white folks. . .