"Fear Spoils Freedoms Promise"

The most pressing communications justice issues today involve the increased ways we can communicate, through new mediums such as technology, and the increased demand for censorship that comes from this increased communication. As more and more people are able to get thier messages out to the public, such as through blogs, it makes people nervous about what is being said. It is no longer being controlled by a select group of people, so there is more radical and provocative messages out there. This makes some people uncomfortable, and feel that certain types of messages should be censored. McMasters points out the list of messages that people want to be censored is growing. He argues that this is a problem, as it is slowly decreasing our freedom of speech, and if we are not careful, future generations will not have the freedom that our country was built upon.