THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, August 6, 1994 TAG: 9408050014
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 26 lines
The major networks' recent refusal to allow the Republican National Committee to buy time to air its proposals on health care should leave no doubt in alert minds as to the media's intent.
An industry that considers the First Amendment a license to spin fact into fiction and weave truth into a fabric of persuasion and distraction now takes upon itself the prerogative of deciding who will have access to the nation's air waves, effectively curtailing the voice of dissent.
That major conduits of public information are now reduced to nothing more than propaganda organs of political agenda is cause for deep concern. Freedom of speech, I fear, is well on its way to becoming itself fiction.
JACK C. BOHLER
Norfolk, July 29, 1994 by CNB