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i think that's a good point, comrade guru...i should say to follow up that stewart is an effective satirist and one of the consequences of this effectiveness is that his work draws attention to the extraordinary restrictedness of the american "free" press, particularly when it comes to what you'd think would be a central function of the press--encouraging (by mirroring, by generating) vigorous debate.
i put up a thread last night about the future of capitalism series that the financial times just started, which seems to me to perform this function---and to have an effect in casting a glance back at the desert of american busy infotainment--and arriving at similar conclusions.
maybe two such instances in less than 24 hours has made me cranky.
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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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