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[jporter]

>Got a couple of posts from you with blank messages.  Did something go awry,
>or did you just hit the wrong key (as I often do myself)?
>
>Best,
>
>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)


Sorry about the transmission failure, here's the message I was attempting
to send:

Lindsay says:

>Interestingly, Official Media seems to exist in all known political
>contexts---Dan Rather is not that different from the party hacks that drone
>out the official line in Beijing, or the old apparat in the Kremlin.  You
>might even say the citizens of the ex-USSR had the advantage over us in the
>States of a conciousness that more thoroughly recognized the slant

Cf: Noam Chomsky's concern (paranoia?) that the apparent freedom in our
society may serve to enslave us in a "prison of our own design" (my
quotes). Those persuaded by their own arguments may well construct the most
impenetrable jails.

jp