Legendary editor Harold Evans bemoans good old days

The discussion group's attention was directed to the following interview:

"At 81, the former Sunday Times editor recalls to John Barber the era
before Rupert Murdoch, when owners were heroes and editors lived by
the truism that ‘news is whatever someone wants to suppress.
Everything else is advertising' "
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/journalisms-high-priest-looks-back-with-wonder/article1398202/

I responded in the guise of a translator (even further removed from changing the world than a reporter!):

So much for bourgeois democratic rights these days.

There's no longer any tension between repressive government and the freedoms of expression, publishing, and assembly. Repressive government uses these freedoms as toilet paper, and they're soft and absorbent, and full of shit. The second anyone makes or tries to make real use of these freedoms, they're threatened, persecuted, thrown into jail or killed.

In this interview Evans is fatalistic about the situation today. He's witnessing (and conscious of) the erosion of all these freedoms, and sits there drowsing.

At least In The Thick Of It (aka In The Loop?) isn't drowsy.

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

And reporters have basically been reporting the world, even in their most "heroic" days, when they've not just been lying through their teeth or twisting the truth. Precious little interpretation at all. And change? Who needs change when we're living in the Best of All Possible Worlds?

Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat. WHUMP. "Love the smell of gasoline in the morning..."

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