DePaul Law Review Volume 55 Issue 1 Fall 2005 Article 3 Can You Hear Me Now?- Corporate Censorship and Its Troubling Implications for the First Amendment William A. Wines Terence J. Lau Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/law-review Recommended Citation William A. Wines & Terence J. Lau, Can You Hear Me Now?- Corporate Censorship and Its Troubling Implications for the First Amendment , 55 DePaul L. Rev. 119 (2005) Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/law-review/vol55/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Law at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Law Review by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?-CORPORATE CENSORSHIP AND ITS TROUBLING IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT William A. Wines & Terence J. Lau1 "[M]oney doesn't talk, it swears." -Bob Dylan2 "The problem of power is ... how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." 3 -Robert F. Kennedy "[A] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open . .. ." 4 -Justice William Brennan INTRODUCTION The "profound national commitment" to "debate on public issues" that Justice Brennan lovingly described in 1964 has recently been forced on life support. 5 Take, for example, Bill Maher's talk show, Politically Incorrect, which appeared for a few years on the ABC net- work. His show was cancelled by ABC in the summer of 20026 when several advertisers pulled out after Mr.