That hope thing, it's tempered.

[pecunium]

I don't think I can add anything to this. It's probably the most depressing thing I read in ages.

I bothers me more than Bertie "Go ahead and break their fingers" Gonzalez being nominated.

Really.

Students say 1st Amendment, "goes too far."

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Re: Just a thought

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

That might depend on how it's taken away.

Right now the mainstream press is doing a pretty damned good job of functioning more as a party organ (Isvetia, with some balls, but small ones) than it is a watchdog.

The defensiveness of it. The lack of real reportage on real scanadals, while engaging in slavering devotion to crap like Whitewater is horrifying.

So a shift, to one where the press is more obedient might not bother them so much as it would bother those of us who know what we need the press for.

Their kids, on the other hand, would notice. And the net, unless it changes a lot; which could happen, I know people who've spent lots of time in China, things there are different, will allow a lot more ready samizdat.

But it would still suck, hell it sucks now, and we still have the freedom to do what we want.

TK

Re: Just a thought

[ladymeow.livejournal.com]

Funny how that works out.

Argh.