[MR] music censorship

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Gail Gray wrote:

> It's not just the music stations who are being cautious.  I work at a city
> newspaper and my editor postponed two of my stories which I researched and
> wrote before the  tragedy. They were to run this week and next.  One was on
> ethnic foods and restaurants and the other on teaching people how to be
> airplane pilots.  He said he postponed these more for the sake of printing
> something in poor taste which would just stir up more grief.  Since they
> weren't news stories but feature stories, published in a section people read
> for entertainment and escape, they were considered inappropriate.

Where does one draw the line at being cautious and something being in poor
taste?  I'm worried things like this are going to move us into a new era
of 'political correctness'.

-- Istvan
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