On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:13:57PM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
> I was delighted in opening the latest issue of MR today to see that it
> featured a lead article on Upton Sinclair's greatest work, _The Brass
> Check_. For many years, in answer to people who complained about the
> "consolidation" of the press in the last decades I have urged them to
> read this work. The Press is not a whit worse today than it was a
> hundred years ago. Then as now it serves its owners -- the capitalist
> class. Complaints about the current media which look back to the
> supposedly brigher days of a more independent press 25 or 50 or 100
> years ago are, implicitly, apologies for capitalism: their implication
> is that the press would be just fine if independent capitalists instead
> of corporations ran it.
>
> Carrol
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