Scuba
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Sun Oct-31-10 07:49 AM
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Dorothy L. Sayers predicted Fox News 80 years ago! |
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) is perhaps best known as a British mystery writer. She was also a humanist who used her voice to speak for those with no voice.
In their Monday edition, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran this quote from Ms. Sayers, which suggests she also understood that having no voice was not the greatest threat.
The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorchip of the press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
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Sun Oct-31-10 08:03 AM
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1. Prescient - thanks for that |
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Sun Oct-31-10 09:34 AM
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3. Smart lady - and she writes a good mystery as well. nt |
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Sun Oct-31-10 02:59 PM
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5. Walter Lippmann is "credited" with the creation of systematic manufactured opinion in America |
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Edited on Sun Oct-31-10 03:00 PM by leveymg
He's often remembered as a noted liberal commentator, which he was later in his career, but he made his name as a master propagandist who, with George Creel, cajoled, terrorized, and prodded a reluctant America into the First World War - you know, "The Great Democratic War" and "The War to End All Wars."
Dorothy Sayers certainly got Faux News right. Will look her up. Thanks!
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