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December 2003 Publisher's Statement The way that seemingly intelligent people react to sex publications, especially HUSTLER, continues to astound me. I mean, sure we are sexually explicit-perhaps more explicit than the other guys-and yes, we are in your face when it comes to calling things as we see them. But we are also one of the few -perhaps even the only-mass entertainment magazines that are willing to expose our government's lies, corruption and hypocrisy. We do a good job at that too, as was recently proven when the people from Project Censored, a watchdog group concerned about media censorship, named our article on Gulf War Syndrome (Toxic Troops, June 2003) as one of the 25 most censored stories of 2003. This recognition, by the way, was culled from over 700 nominees and, although they got the article from us, we did not submit it for consideration, only as an introduction when we sought some information from them. If we had been trying to get nominated, we might have appeared in their top-25 list more than once. Now here's the problem: In our effort to cover stories you won't find anywhere else, we go to the best sources possible. In that regard we've done quite well, getting people like award-winning BBC reporter Greg Palast, activist Jesse Jackson and Nobel prize-nominated Dr. Helen Caldicott to contribute to our efforts. However, others have not been so forthcoming: Steve Rendall of Fairness and Accuracy in Media, Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly and Robert McChesney, author of Rich Media Poor Democracy, have all blown us off when we requested interviews. So have Ralph Nader, Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich and even my good friend Arianna Huffington. I'd like to note that all of the foregoing personalities have at least one thing in common: Their constant whining about how the corporate media ignores them. So you would think they'd jump at the chance to get their message out. But, no, not these guys. They'd rather go down the tubes without a fight than join forces with a pornographer, even if the pornographer in question supports the very causes they stand for. So here's what I have to say to them: Get your heads out of your asses. When the issue at stake is nothing less than the salvation of our democracy, you should take your allies where you find them. Yes, HUSTLER is a porn magazine, but it's only sex, after all. Larry Flynt Publisher |
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