Brian Kilmeade (pictured right), has called for a Office of Censorship. Fox & Friends co-host E.D. Hill said an Office of Censorship should be set up to question "Does this [news story] hurt our country or is it of...news value?"
In a debate on Brian & The Judge, Brian and co-host Andrew P. Napolitano took opposite sides on this issue.
Napolitano: If we were to allow some office of the government to decide what journalists can say, that would be the same that the King of England imposed on newspapers...that prompted the Revolution. It would be about the most un-American thing you can imagine. How can we fight a war to bring freedom to another country, to bring freedom of the press to another country when we're crushing freedom of the press here at home?
Kilmeade: Not crushing - preserving our freedom by preserving our secrets because war is not a free thing...The Office closes in 1945. Our nation still flies. The flag still soars.
Napolitano: Scaring me to death, Brian, because I know they'd come after O'Reilly and me and you'd have to visit us in Gitmo.
This call for an office of censorship is totally outrageous. We must not let freedom of the press die. It allows for two sided debate. This office could very easily be abused, and with all reports censored by the office, no one would ever know. Whoever controls the information controls the country.
But one good side is that the generation that we are in would not let that happen...at least I hope. With the digital age it would be difficult to screen all press and all blogs and all reports that are put online in America. China is running into that problem. Although they have some of the biggest blocks in place, in terms of censorship, they still have items that slip through the cracks. That is thanks to the computer.
Even with the difficulties that would come with a Office of Censorship sadly the conservative hosts on Fox News don't think that it is far off (at least they hope not). This issue is far from coming to serious consideration in Washington, but just the proposal is enough to warrant a strong response from Americans.
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