On Sun, 1/18/15, V M wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Whose-free-speechWe-are-not-Charlie/articleshow/45934315.cms -snip- Appropriately, no Indian politician joined Hollande's march. This is because every political party, and almost every Indian agrees free speech has limitations—this society is neither willing nor capable of tolerating Charlie Hebdo-style provocations. -snip- The great, pioneering American journalist and media critic A J Liebling coined a relevant truism—"freedom of the press is only for those who own one". This is applicable to Goa, to Paris, to every newspaper and television outlet across the world. There is no such thing as free speech, and it provably does not exist in the countries and societies currently grandstanding about the issue on the world stage. The real truth is nobody is Charlie. ---------------------------------------------
VM, This article piqued my interest such that I went to see who wrote it. So - my congratulations. I will add one observation though. Increasingly, more people are getting their news not from the traditional media outlets like TV, radio and newspapers. The younger people are now being fed thru social media. I find that a lot of what passes for news now, is copy and paste and often this results in herd mentality, rather than the search for the truth. Je Suis Charlie is a prime example. Mervyn
