The test of democracy is freedom of criticism
To the Editor:
While I found the "search for Joe Pisani's new blog" humorous, the letter which followed was nauseating. I think, to make those types of accusations publicly, in an anonymous way, is a horrendous display of what we don't need in journalism (online or otherwise)
These so-called blogs should be modified, and the writer should be forced to sign them with their full name. I don't know who "R.C" is, but if he wrote about me, my family, or my coworkers is such a viscous and deceitful way, I'd want to beat the living shit out of him.
Having said that, I admit I have made my share of disparaging remarks in these type forums and I wouldn't have, if I was forced to use my real name.
I don't always agree w/Joe Pisani's columns, but his writing doesn't effect me personally. From what I know about him, I think he lives a moral life and strongly abides by his religious values. To insinuate or make innuendoes about him, his family, or friends, is wrong.
There is no excuse for the insults written in that letter. There is no truth in any of it, either. Joe may or may not be perfect, but he is what he is. A pretty good guy.
signed, me
Comment:
There is an effort for Joe Pisani and those who benefited from his censorship of dissent to try and revise Greenwich history.
Many bloggers in town, like Greenwich Diva and Greenwich Gossip were victims of one sided reporting or censorship while Joe Pisani was editor of the Greenwich Time.
A newspaper editor that censors voices in the community is a nothing to be admired.
A people that have been censored and told that they don't count tend to strike back in a mean spirited way. Joe Pisani hurt a lot of feelings in this community by being the best friend a public official ever had.
A newspaper editor that sits on an investigative report about a murdered Greenwich girl, because he was afraid of rich and powerful people is not to be admired.
A newspaper editor that sits on an investigative report about a murdered Greenwich girl, because he was afraid of rich and powerful people is not to be admired.
How do you think Martha Moxley's mother feels about Good Ole Joe's censorship helping her daughter's killer roam around free all of those years?
To many things were censored by Joe Pisani, because he did not want to take the heat for telling you what is really going on in Greenwich.
Even today Mr. Pissani's tradition of censorship is living on. Have you seen one picture of Frank Mazza's "NEW" 30 Million Dollar School Building That Leaks in the Greenwich Time?
To many things were censored by Joe Pisani, because he did not want to take the heat for telling you what is really going on in Greenwich.
Even today Mr. Pissani's tradition of censorship is living on. Have you seen one picture of Frank Mazza's "NEW" 30 Million Dollar School Building That Leaks in the Greenwich Time?
The next four days Greenwich is going to get poured on a good amount of the water is going to damage even more of the building that Greenwich taxpayers work so hard to pay for.
But Greenwich Taxpayers that only read the Greenwich Time are in the dark about what is going on at Hamilton Avenue School.
Joe Pissiani Long History Of Censorship In Greenwich Was A Very Bad Thing For This Town.
The Greenwich Time's History Of Censorship Offends The Good Minded People Of Greenwich And All The Good Minded People Of The Earth.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers
Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus
Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The paper burns, but the words fly away. ~Akiba ben Joseph
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. ~Harold R. Medina
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~Mae West
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky
You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Joe Pissiani Long History Of Censorship In Greenwich Was A Very Bad Thing For This Town.
The Greenwich Time's History Of Censorship Offends The Good Minded People Of Greenwich And All The Good Minded People Of The Earth.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers
Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus
Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The paper burns, but the words fly away. ~Akiba ben Joseph
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. ~Harold R. Medina
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~Mae West
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky
You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
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