Channel 6 shooting itself in the foot

              Channel 6 is shooting itself in the foot by firing Robert

    Whitcomb - PROJO editorial page editor - from its Sunday morning

    public affairs program. I rarely watch TV and have no idea how

    he comes across on TV - ( as the boss of M. Charles Bakst ? ) .

                 The irony here is that Mr. Whitcomb must be familiar

    with " the treatment ".  FREE SPEECH in reality means freedom for

    the wealthy owners of the news media to say what they please, to

    show what they want to show, to tell the public what they want the

    public to hear. And where is the passion for TRUTH in all this ?

                 But I know that Robert Whitcomb never writes anything

    with his name under it that is stupid and uninformed. Can TV afford

    to be dominated by complete idiots ?

                  The economics of FREE SPEECH is, of course, modified

    and influenced by old fashioned American idealism: CENSORSHIP IS

    ODIOUS..... ALL OPINIONS SHOULD BE  HEARD. This is not just a

    patronizing indulgence but a practical necessity for making sound

    judgments in a most imperfect democracy.

              FREE SPEECH for plutocrats, too ! Love that " Buddy " !