Nightline: America Fights Back
W A S H I N G T O N, November 2 -- In time of crisis, even in time of war, American values should not belost. The right to dissent is easy to defend during peacetime. But duringtime of war, that right can sometimes seem like a luxury rather than anecessity. Tonight we make room for voices of dissent, or at least voicesthat are less likely to be popular or embraced by the mainstream.
Tonight we bring you a series of voices. The first is from a young man whois the creator of the comic strip "Boondocks." His irreverent strip haschallenged both authority and mainstream sentiment so much that somenewspapers refused to carry it. Others transferred it to the editorialpage. The mainstream media, he says, are too much in lockstep with theBush Administration and his strip provides an alternative viewpoint.
Another voice you may not agree with comes from Indian novelist ArundhatiRoy. She is probably best known for her critically acclaimed novel "TheGod of Small Things." Roy wrote an essay that was published in severalnewspapers around the world last month, but was not carried by newspapershere. Certainly her viewpoint isn't one that is likely to be popular here. Roy explains how she and many people in the world can grieve with Americafor what happened on September 11th, and still feel uncomfortable standingside by side with America. She explains her discomfort with American powerand arrogance and she wonders how much Americans appreciate that suchdiscomfort exists. She argues that the mainstream media here shieldsAmericans from such worldviews.
Sara Just is Senior Producer of Nightline.
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