Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

In “Lies and Videotape” (Op-Ed, April 23), Christopher Walker and Robert W. Orttung persuasively show how dictators use state-run media to suppress freedom by controlling the flow of information to their countrymen.

Perhaps the next time we hear voices with which we disagree on cable television, we will think twice before we try to silence them by labeling them as uncivil.

We should enjoy the cacophony. It is the sound of freedom. The deafening uniformity with which some seek to replace it is the sound of totalitarianism.

DARRYL W. JACKSON
Washington, April 23, 2011

Note from KBJ: The only people trying to silence voices on cable television (and talk radio) are progressives, who can't stand it that their views must compete in the marketplace of ideas. They hate competition in the marketplace of ideas as much as they hate competition generally. They are totalitarians manqué.