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dc---i think we're in agreement about the general problems, but approach them from different angles.
in principle, i think that the bush period requires some serious reflection.
it pushed to its logical conclusions patterns relating to information that were, as i said, put into place under the reagan period and gradually added to.
in the information strategy, you can see most of the features that would repeat in the specifically legal questions that either commission would be charged with.
to my mind, the fundamental question is: what is a democratic polity in 2008?
what role does the dominant media play in shaping the parameters within which that polity operates, by defining issues and by defining the range of "legitimate opinion" about those issues?
what characterized this relationship in the period following 9/11/2001?
what should be rethought in order to prevent that from happening again?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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