ASSASSINATION, AN EXTREME FORM OF CENSORSHIP
ASSASSINATION, AN EXTREME FORM OF CENSORSHIP Kelleigh Nelson Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. Charles Krauthammer Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Potter Stewart Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination…