'We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion...
by tosca on Friday, July 1, 2011
...and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
In which Tosca moderately expresses her disappointment at what passes for 'journalism.' An epiphany that came about as a result of reading an online article that discusses how Auckland Libraries will stock a controversial book and is amazed that this is considered 'reporting' - and I use that word loosely - because it's rather stating the obvious, isn't it? Isn't that what public libraries do? Stock books? And which controversial book in particular? We have thousands of books, a good chunk of which have been challenged and or banned at some point or another.
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