I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far greater consequence than the remark itself. Democratic choice in such cases ceases to be a choice between alternatives people are familiar with, and have personally tried, and becomes a choice between alternatives offered by those who run the media.

It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media.

An ordinary human being, with a personal conscience, personally answering for something to somebody and personally and directly taking responsibility, seems to…

Many people hardly ever see a politician as a person anymore. Instead, a politician is a shadow they watch on television, not knowing whether he is speaking im…

Of course, it was not a true uprising of the people. It was inspired by America and other agents. The 'Voice of America' really started it.

Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to ge…

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, w…