The New York Times Scoffs at Free Speech

by John Hinderaker
Powerline Blog
November 27, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/3583/the-new-york-times-scoffs-at-free-speech

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Liberal support for free speech has been waning for a long time, and at present it seems to be just about extinct. The latest evidence is a story in today's New York Times about Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man who made the video that was falsely blamed for the Benghazi attack, and has languished in jail for the last two months as a result. One might think that the Times would regard jailing a man for exercising his First Amendment rights as an outrage requiring daily denunciations, but no–the tone of the article, by Serge Kovaleski and Brooks Barnes, suggests that Nakoula deserved what he got.

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