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Hi, welcome! I noticed your edits to Orson Scott Card. Do you have a source that for it? Where did you read it? Just curious because it was surprising to me to learn (not that I would know) and wikipedia has a cite your sources policy. Thanks for editing! Peace, delldot | talk 15:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I remember reading it in either his "war watch" or "uncle orson reviews everything" columns. I specifically recall him using Stephen King as an example of why writers need to get out of urban cities and connect with "real people" who don't live in the liberal elitist atmosphere of cities. And he's stated that all wars, whether just or unjust, have devastation -- and that it's important and necessary to prevent the public from seeing this devastation in order to be able to prosecute the war, whether a just or unjust war.
I recall reading both opinions (about Stephen King, and wartime media censureship) somewhere in his two regular columns. There was a period of time when I was regular reader of both, since they were always link to from Hatrack (one of his two official forums).
His bias against "liberals" is very well known and extensively documented in his political writings. He's also lamented America's "moral decline" in either an afterword or interview where he was discussing the terms "rim civilization" and "centre civilization" with regard to America and Japan, and how Japan was moving from "rim" to "centre" while his own country is dropping from "centre" due to moral decadence brought on by liberal elites.
Here's a toned down version of where he uses Stephen King to attack the "elitists" http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2003-09-21.shtml The one I read is more specific, and I distinctly remember him making the reference to suburbia and King's residence/story settings in it versus the city dwelling elitists. There's an outside chance that I read it in one of Card's two writing books (I've read both). So if you're so inclined to track that reference down, you can check out the two books and search for Stephen King in the index. Note, Card's views are not my own. I read books by conservative and liberal novelists alike. But Card does make a habit of using the caricature of unpatriotic-godless-liberal-citydwelling-elitists as scapegoats for many of his nonfiction political rants.
Here's a discussion where he talks about freedom of the press during wartime. http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2003-09-21.shtml He says that if we must err, it's better to have a freer rather than not free press. But that it's necessary to impose some censorship constraints amidst the freedom. He writes: "There has to be censorship of the news during war, because the press does not think like the military and almost never realizes just how much vital information the enemy can gain from their uncensored broadcasts and news stories." And: "But you know what the public hates worse? Reading the name of someone they love in the lists of war dead. And even in victory, the only way to keep up the will to win -- that elusive thing called morale -- is by keeping the progress of the war at the front of the public consciousness, and keeping the cost of the war in death and suffering well to the back."
This is very well documented! Keep up the good work. You may want to put a not on the article's talk page with the same references as here, or you can even put the links citation-style in the article after your content by putting square brackets ([ and ]) around the website (don't forget http://) and it will make it a little number, like this: [1]. if you put <sup> and </sup> before and after it, respectively, it will make it a superscript.
The way you responded to my comment was fine. I usually respond on the other person's talk page so they see it whether or not they're watching my talk page (the watchlist is one of the benefits of creating an account). But other users prefer to keep the conversation all on one page or another, for continuity. People just generally mention what they're going to do in their comment, but the default is to reply on the other person's page. By the way, you should sign your comments on talk pages by putting four tildes (~~~~), which is automatically turned into your signature and time stamp. Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions or anything, I always like getting messages! Peace, delldot | talk 19:45, 11 December 2005 (UTC)