Ok, so Oprah Winfrey recently pulled a book from her famous "Oprah's Book Club List." The story was about a young Cherokee boy and Oprah originally admired the book and put int on her list. The author recently died and his obituary revealed that he had been a lifetime memory of the KKK. She pulled it off the list upon learning the author's history. Her rationale for her action was that the author's racism, hatred of African Americans, and his personal lifestyle offended her. She said (loose quote), "I do not want to fund his way of being."
Ethical issue: Should Oprah have done this? What is the relationship between a work of art and its artist? Is she promoting restrictions on free speech adn artistic expression? Is her actions in this case morally questionable?
2007-11-29
03:41:12
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