[WikiEN-l] The terrorists have won
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Tue Jul 7 04:39:18 UTC 2009
stevertigo wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gwern Branwen<gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> More generally, my point is that the reasoning offered for the
>> censorship is intellectually bankrupt.
>>
> Well let's not attribute to malice what better can be ascribed to
> corporate do-gooderness. Obviously, if the NYT, in presenting
> themselves to media, represented their case as being a tactic rather
> than simply a gesture of compliance, then they now have a little issue
> of journalistic integrity with everyone they dealt with.
>
> I would have said "corporate integrity," but everyone would easily
> figure out that was a pun.
>
>
Not all puns are oxymorons.
Ec
More information about the WikiEN-l
mailing list