"a failure of public will allowing the introduction of evil policies and the rise of evil regimes"?

[Doug Millison]

http://www.people-press.org/112801s1.htm
"[...] While most Americans support censorship, some clearly distinguish
between restrictions on overseas and domestic news, and they are much more
comfortable with the former than the latter. By better than five-to-one,
those who believe that news from Afghanistan is being censored favor those
restrictions. That is on par with the level of support for censorship
measured during the Gulf war. By contrast, there is about two-to-one
support for government censorship of news on homefront threats.  Support
for tight government control over the flow of information is reflected in
other attitudes as well. Half the public believes the military should have
greater influence over war reporting, while four-in-ten believe most
decisions about how to report about the war should be left to news
organizations. The partisan split in opinions toward the press also is seen
in attitudes toward censorship and government restrictions: nearly
six-in-ten Republicans (59%) want the military to exert more control over
war reporting, compared with 41% of Democrats. [...] "



"In this century we have come to think of Sloth as primarily political, a
failure of public will allowing the introduction of evil policies and the
rise of evil regimes, the worldwide fascist ascendancy of the 1920's and
30's being perhaps Sloth's finest hour, though the Vietnam era and the
Reagan-Bush years are not far behind."
--Thomas Pynchon,
"Nearer, my Couch, to Thee"
The New York Times Book Review
6 June 1993