190. The Seedy Business of Censoring Books by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. & On Other Topics You Care About
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Inside the seedy world of book censorship with Tony Lyons, founder of Skyhorse Publishing. He tells us about efforts to silence Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and books on other topics you want to read about.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison |
| 0:11.2 | podcast. Today we will go inside the CD world of book censorship with Tony Lyons. He's |
| 0:18.6 | founder of Sky Horse Publishing. He's going to tell us about efforts to silence Robert |
| 0:23.0 | F. Kennedy, Jr. and books on a lot of other topics that you want to read about. |
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| 1:15.3 | communication or information that can be co-opted by propagandists and other special interests |
| 1:22.0 | has been and that is true of course about the world of book publishing. One might think that |
| 1:28.9 | when it comes to publishing books making films doing things that are in the arts that there's |
| 1:34.7 | lots of freedom of expression you should be able to read and see whatever you wish hear different |
| 1:40.9 | viewpoints different theories and ideas and you can come to the conclusion as to whether you believe |
| 1:46.8 | them or not or like them or not or want to read more. But just like other forms of information |
| 1:52.8 | and communication books are being censored too in ways that would surely have chilled our founding |
| 1:59.2 | fathers. Today in this podcast we're going to hear from the founder of Sky Horse Publishing |
| 2:05.3 | Tony Lions. He's going to talk about how he pretty much ran a fairly ordinary publishing house |
| 2:11.9 | until this whole environment we're talking about came to be with books being censored by people |
| 2:18.1 | who didn't want certain uncomfortable truths or viewpoints widely disseminated. It began with |
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