[lbo-talk] ciao, newspapers

C. G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Fri Jan 22 20:55:16 PST 2010


The poets often get there first. This is from Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day" (1978):

Milne: No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

Ruth: I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:20 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> "By and large, down the decades, the mainstream newspapers have —
>> often rabidly — obstructed and sabotaged efforts to improve our social
>> and political condition."
>> --<http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn01012010.html>
>
> Right. And none of us would know a damn thing without them, Cockburn
> included.
>
> Doug
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