Free Speech Unspoken

"Several months ago now, I was invited to contribute a piece to be taped for the FreeSpeech segment on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. This invitation had resulted from a contact within Simon & Schuster, the publisher of the MILBLOG Anthology, The Blog of War, to which I contributed.

As many of those who contributed segments were to find out, the ninety or so second FreeSpeech segments became more advocacy than opinion. Ratings for Katie’s new vehicle slid within the first week on air, and the FreeSpeech segments withstood a fair amount of criticism from audiences, as well as internal news staff, who objected to a precious 90 seconds of airtime of a 24 minute news program given over to amateurs."
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