My observation is that as our "free press" goes continuously downhill, the claims of that press to being some sort of bulwark against totalitarianism become ever more strident.
My Globe and Mail had an opinion piece today by some guy who once won a Pulitzer, but is today ensconced in a think-tank sponsored by the Dart Foundation.
The tax-averse Dart brothers were born to great wealth and have managed to magnify that wealth exponentially via the efforts of their vulture hedge fund that specialises in screwing over the citizens of developing nations by predatory trading in third world debt.
That's the kind of twat that passes for a defender of a free press these days.
What I didn't see much of, at least in the mainstream media outlets, was any mention of Julian Assange.
You'll recall Julian as that guy who for a brief moment in time personified the power of a free press.
Well, that seems to be over now.
Julian Assange is toast.
So is our "free press."
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