[PEN-L:6843] People's Daily Commentary and Mark Twain

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Charles:
>Barkley:
>  I get my versions from the Washington Post
>which reports stuff that is not just from "official
>spokespersons."
>
>Charles: This is not very critical thinking. To buy the
>idea that the monopoly media is independent from the
>U.S. power structure is to be under U.S. Big Brother mind
>control. In other words, your response to the People's
>Daily Commentary is in a sarcastic tone, smacking of the old
>capitalist propaganda that communism has Big Brother and the U.S. doesn't,
>that the U.S. has freedom of the press, and communist
>countries don't. This in itself is to be a sucker for
>U.S. mindcontrol. The U.S. has freedom of the press,
>for them that owns the presses.

*It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and
the prudence never to practice either.*
	Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Yoshie