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Speaking about " free speech " and " public comment " in Warwick, I heard John Howell's morning interview with Talk Radio newsman Gene Valicenti where Valicenti feels out the Warwick Beacon publisher on Valicenti's BRIGHT IDEA of banning newspaper COMMENTS--- in The Providence Journal, for example - as they are frequently annoying ( to whom ? ) vulgar ( that's DEMOCRACY ) and " serve no purpose " ( like right here ). I guess Gene Valicenti thinks all we need is right-wing talk radio. And this is the last word in popular democracy ?

I commend Mr. Howell for not letting Gene make him sound too interested in this suffocation of PUBLIC COMMENT. If COMMENTS annoy the reader , he or she can just ignore them . And they are well monitored anyway. A democratic Socialist myself- giving critical support to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont- I listen to 630wpro.com Talk Radio simply because I am interested in every barometer of PUBLIC OPINION. This morning there was a lot of hysterical rabble rousing by John DePetro on the hot topic of those oh-so-dangerous and sinister Syrian refugees. Certain illiberal liberals have boycotted John DePetro. I think this long boycott is foolish. Political correctness can also become tyrannical.

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