{"id":1367,"date":"2006-08-01T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:15:14","slug":"free-speech-or-crossing-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/free-speech-or-crossing-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech or crossing the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/quick.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/quick.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPeople aren&#8217;t too happy about today&#8217;s cover of <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.quickdfw.com\">Quick<\/span>. The <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.quickdfw.com\/qbk\/pdf\/quick.pdf\">Belo\/Dallas Morning News<\/span> product features the kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna on the MTV Video Music Awards a few years back as the cover picture for an article on MTV&#8217;s 25 year anniversary(granted the actual cover wasn&#8217;t censored).<br \/>\nI&#8217;m normally a proponent of free speech, mainly because I don&#8217;t want my rights trampled on. But considering this paper is distributed freely across the Dallas area I question the editor&#8217;s choice of pictures.<br \/>\nIt is a shock photo and grabs your attention. I imagine it will help improve rack sells today, but is it worth it?<br \/>\nFrom email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let the Dallas Morning News know what you think here.<br \/>\nThere are ways to address declining newspaper subscriptions, but here&#8217;s a sure way to make things worse.<br \/>\nThe cover features the infamous kiss between Madonna and Brtianny spears that was brought to us on Viacom&#8217;s MTV.  It&#8217;s no wonder Viacom is renaming their outdoor advertising business with the CBS brand.<br \/>\nIn the minds of many, the Viacom brand has become a symbol of moral decay &#8212; a symbol of selling out people for the love of money.  Many people overseas hate America because of the moral influence of our media &#8212; and this is an excellent illustration of the problem.<br \/>\nQuick is the daily free distribution paper of the Dallas Morning News.  You can let them know what you think here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People aren&#8217;t too happy about today&#8217;s cover of Quick. The Belo\/Dallas Morning News product features the kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna on the MTV Video Music Awards a few years back as the cover picture for an article on MTV&#8217;s 25 year anniversary(granted the actual cover wasn&#8217;t censored). I&#8217;m normally a proponent of free &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/free-speech-or-crossing-the-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free speech or crossing the line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-m3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}