Freedom Is About Stopping The Past.

There Are A Lot Of People Who Say We Need To Cut The Amount Of Money That's Spent In Politics. I'm Not Sure That I Agree. But I Am Sure That If You Were Talking About Cutting The Amount Of Money Spent In Politics, The Media Would Have A Strong Interest In Opposing You, Because They Make An Enormous Amount Of Money From Political Advertisements.

I Am Big Supporter Of The Idea Of A Global Anti-corruption Movement - But One That Begins By Recognizing That The Architecture Of Corruption Is Different In Different Countries. The Corruption We Suffer Is Not The Same As The Corruption That Debilitates Africa. But It Is Both Corruption, And Both Need To Be Eliminated If The Faith In Democracy Is Not Going To Be Destroyed.

And With A Practice Of Writing Comes A Certain Important Integrity. A Culture Filled With Bloggers Thinks Differently About Politics Or Public Affairs, If Only Because More Have Been Forced Through The Discipline Of Showing In Writing Why A Leads To B.

The Danger In Media Concentration Comes Not From The Concentration, But Instead From The Feudalism That This Concentration, Tied To The Change In Copyright, Produces.

Power Runs With Ideas That Only The Crazy Would Draw Into Doubt.