Should you, as a journalist whose profession depends on the First Amendment, write an editorial reaffirming the right to free speech?
Free speech is no longer sacred among young journalists who have absorbed the campus lessons about "Hate speech"-defined more and more broadly-and they're breaking long-standing taboos as they bring "Cancel culture" into professional newsrooms.
These mostly younger progressive journalists lead campaigns to get conservative journalists fired, banned from Twitter, and "De-monetized" on YouTube.
While America has seen its share of politicians eager to limit speech, from John Adams and Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump, journalists on the left and the right have long shared a reverence for the First Amendment, if only out of self-interest.
They describe themselves as "Anti-fascist," a ludicrous term for a masked mob suppressing free speech, but journalists respectfully use it anyway.
Enterprising journalists can always find someone at the rally somehow linked to what some left-wing organization has designated a dangerous "Hate group." And journalists can turn to the much-quoted Mark Bray, a historian at Dartmouth, to provide a rationale for the masked mob's tactics.
CJR showed little interest in Antifa's censorious tactics until prompted recently by Quillette, the online magazine devoted to "Dangerous ideas," which has run articles by journalists and academics on the culture wars over free speech.
https://www.city-journal.org/journalists-against-free-speech
Free speech is no longer sacred among young journalists who have absorbed the campus lessons about "Hate speech"-defined more and more broadly-and they're breaking long-standing taboos as they bring "Cancel culture" into professional newsrooms.
These mostly younger progressive journalists lead campaigns to get conservative journalists fired, banned from Twitter, and "De-monetized" on YouTube.
While America has seen its share of politicians eager to limit speech, from John Adams and Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump, journalists on the left and the right have long shared a reverence for the First Amendment, if only out of self-interest.
They describe themselves as "Anti-fascist," a ludicrous term for a masked mob suppressing free speech, but journalists respectfully use it anyway.
Enterprising journalists can always find someone at the rally somehow linked to what some left-wing organization has designated a dangerous "Hate group." And journalists can turn to the much-quoted Mark Bray, a historian at Dartmouth, to provide a rationale for the masked mob's tactics.
CJR showed little interest in Antifa's censorious tactics until prompted recently by Quillette, the online magazine devoted to "Dangerous ideas," which has run articles by journalists and academics on the culture wars over free speech.
https://www.city-journal.org/journalists-against-free-speech
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