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Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

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Jim Walton
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Jim Walton
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Jim Walton
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton
I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something.
Jim Walton
If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.
Jim Walton
CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.
Jim Walton
Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.
Jim Walton
I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
Jim Walton
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Jim Walton
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
Jim Walton
We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.
Jim Walton
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
Jim Walton
In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.
Jim Walton
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Natan Sharansky
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Natan Sharansky
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Harold Pinter
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
John Charles Polanyi
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
James W. Fulbright
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Richard Perle
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
Michael Servetus
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
Mo Rocca
Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
Jim Hightower
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert Jackson
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
John Lindsay
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
George Henry Lewes
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Learned Hand
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Harry Belafonte
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.
Sherrod Brown
Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.
Peter Schuyler