Reminds me of that quote by Boris Nemtsov during the NTV hearings to the effect that "Yeltsin would have tried to control the media, but he never watched TV, so he thought everybody liked him."
Chris Doss The Russia Journal
Gordon said: While Yeltsin's behavior seems a bit heavy-handed even for the genre, I think we're still within the boundaries of _bourgeois_ democracy here, in which the _demos_ isn't just everybody, but is arranged into sets where some people are much more important than others, some can speak but others must remain unheard, some pay, others are paid and yet others stand by, and so forth. As long as the democracy in question is _bourgeois_ democracy, I believe Capital will prefer it -- it's their kind of thing. The problems with places like Algeria is that the electorate isn't yet sufficiently bourgeoisified. Russia was near the edge when Tsar Boris shot up the parliament, so strong methods were indicated.