The Death of Free Speech

Description

Author:
John Ziegler

Publisher:
Cumberland House Publishing

Year:
2005

Description:
In The Death of Free Speech, John Ziegler examines how the news media has created arbitrary, biased, and illogical rules for determining what can and cannot be said publicly. He details how in almost every major case of “Speech Punishment” in contemporary America, the guilty verdict was wrong and unjust.

By examining high-profile incidents from the modern media age, Ziegler blows apart the conventional wisdom that led to numerous public figures being unfairly penalized for expressing their constitutionally protected opinions while others were spared such censure despite making similar statements. Drawing on his own experiences of being fired numerous times for his on-air comments, as well as never-before-revealed interactions with others who found themselves the target of the self-appointed “thought police” in the news media, Ziegler takes an in-depth look at the issues that surround these controversies and persuasively argues that they profoundly contribute to our broken national dialogue. 246 pages hardcover