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Article about the importance of tolerating dissent in the context of promoting free speech. References Pakistan's anti-blasphemy laws and people killed extrajudicially in the country for blasphemy.  

There is an unsustainable dichotomy in our nation’s attitude toward foreign media companies and their journalism that reveals deep-seated confusion about the global forum provided by National Public Radio, France 24, CCTV (China Central TV), Russia Today, the British Broadcasting Corp. and, most notably for the moment, Al Jazeera.

We should think about American journalism as a mixed system, where the mission is to get the balance right.To me a key priority is to strengthen our public broadcasting role in the global arena.