'Censorship'
'The song [Cop Killer] is fiction, not fact. At no point did I go out and say
'Let's do it.' I am singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with police
brutality. I ain't never killed no cop. I felt like it a lot of times. But I never did'
-Rapper Ice-T, National Review, July 20, 1992.
Statements such as that has started an on going debate about censorship in the
television and music industry. What exactly is censorship? Some feel censorship is a
violation of the first amendment right. Others say censorship is a must in the violent,
abusive world we…
