P. E. Moskowitz: The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment

I wonder if KPFA, so-called "free speech" radio will hand out little *tiny* index cards or little slips of paper during audience Q&A -- so that they can sift out all the questions they don't like (no matter how brief, and especially any critiques from the left about the left), or "summarize" questions, a half-dozen to a dozen at a time, all together? Anything to deny you your *own* voice -- unlike academic and other events at UC Berkeley that aren't even necessarily liberal or leftist in particular. It shows that KPFA wants to make sure that no question -- that it can't discard or summarize into a platitude -- falls outside of whatever the mainstream or fashionable "leftist" party line is, with no possibly deeper and incisive analysis.

UC Berkeley even took oral questions after a speaking even in a packed Zellerbach Auditorium. Middle East Children's Alliance always takes oral questions. All anyone has to, or should, do is to put a reasonable time limit (like 2-1/2 or 3 minutes) on anything a questioner wants to say/ask or comment-question.

KPFA may be "liberal-left" radio, but it is *NOT* free speech radio. And 'funny' how when the left puts on an event, they are most likely to want to control the questions using tiny little index cards or tiny slips of paper -- even if the audience is small! And it's really IRONIC & LAUGHABLE that Philip Maldari -- or any of those old-guard KPFA white guys like him, Bensky, Bernstein (with, on those rare occasions when he deigns to open up his radio call-in line 3 minutes before his show is over, his famous "10-seconds questions only!!" demand), & the like (but at KPFA events sadly it's not just white/male moderators who do this) -- is hosting this event.

I know, after a guest lecturer is done, why not have the KPFA moderator (most of whom couldn't ask a short question to save their life) write down their (the moderator's) typically realllly longggg question, including *their* speech first, for someone from the audience to summarize in one short sentence or phrase, or have the KPFA moderator write down a more or less dozen of their questions at a time for the guest and have someone from the audience summarize the moderator's more or less dozen questions at a time, to be summarized into one short question by an audience member?

KPFA even moderator types always complain about mainstream media easy uncontextualilzed "sound-bite" questions to a U.S. president, other politicians, or corporate officials, but that's what KPFA event moderators want during Q&A from any audience questioners.

It shows that, given on or the other, even KPFA prefers control over possible deeper consciousness at its events. And like CBS, PBS, CNN, etc., or the notorious Fox News, all have their media slogans, so-called "Free Speech Radio" is typically just another media outlet slogan -- by no means necessarily meant to be true. And if it's not a downright lie, it's also called HYPOCRISY!