ABC News made a mistake in editorial judgment for several reasons.
Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination next year. “If you are going to interview RFK Jr., you should let him be RFK Jr.,” writes Rich Lowry.ABC News did a wide-ranging interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. the other day. The ABC reporter asked him a number of challenging questions, notably about the lack of support from his own family for his presidential run.
Now this is not, as a technical matter, censorship; ABC News isn’t a government entity and can exercise whatever editorial judgment it pleases. But the spirit of the exercise was in keeping with censorship, and it reflected how the press and social media platforms operated during the height of the pandemic when they were the self-appointed arbiters of Truth.One, if you are going to interview RFK Jr., you should let him be RFK Jr.
Three, in a free society, we default toward letting people propagate error and rebutting it with better arguments. The opposite reflex — to shut down, rather than merely disagree with, people we believe are wrong has led to the lopsided censorship regime created by social media platforms and the phenomenon of people being censored for views that should fall within the parameters of reasonable debate and have often proved correct.
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