Live Free or Die: Censorship, Sensationalism and Semantics
�A Critique of Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt's Film

The following articles are relevant to the central question of our critique: does Live Free or Die distort the activities of peaceful pro-life activists beyond acceptable limits in order to manufacture a drama of terror out of what was essentially a local dispute between two political adversaries?� Media consumers -- and that is all of us these days -- need to be aware of the ways in which censorship, sensationalism, and semantics by media representatives can affect how we understand a given social or political issue. Is the movement to abolish abortion in this country fairly represented in the media? What do we make of the fact that the very organs of print media that laud the civil rights movement and the slavery abolitionist movement use a different rhetoric when reporting on the abortion abolitionist movement? We hope that these articles will give people of good will on both sides of the abortion issue pause to think about the way in which the pro-life movement is represented in media in this country.

"An Acceptable Protest" by Cat J.A. Clark
"Letter from a Birmingham City Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Pro-Choice Bigots" by Nat Hentoff
Dr. Martin Luther King: How Does Media Sensationalism Contribute to Violence in Society? (recalled by Daniel Schorr)
"Lilith Gags Feminists for Life" by Laura DeMarco
"The Semantics of Oppression" by William Brennan
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