Secrecy Is The Freedom Tyrants Dream Of.

Presidents Are Afraid To Lose Wars. They're Afraid To Be Outflanked On The Right By The Militarists. They Don't Want To Be Seen As Soft On Either Communism Or Soft On Terrorism Or Whatever. So Presidents Are Constantly Tugged Away From Their Domestic Commitments To Foreign Policy.

I've Lived Long Enough To See The Triumph Of Zealots And Absolutists, To Watch Money Swallow Politics, To Witness The Rise Of The Corporate State. See The Party Of Working And Poor People Become A Sycophant Of Crony Capitalism. Watch The Union Of Church And State Become Fashionable Again. Witness The Coupling Of News And Entertainment. See Everyday People Cast Overboard As The Pirates And Predators Of Wall Street Seized The Ship Of State. I Didn't Drift; I Moved Left Just By Standing Still.

Fox News And Rush Limbaugh Have Raised Ignorance To Ideology And Stupefied An Entire Political Party. No More Roguish And Rowdy Band Of Predators Ever Did More To Demean And Despoil The Democracy On Whose Carcass They Feed.

A Journalist Is Basically A Chronicler, Not An Interpreter Of Events. Where Else In Society Do You Have The License To Eavesdrop On So Many Different Conversations As You Have In Journalism? Where Else Can You Delve Into The Life Of Our Times?

Big Money And Big Business, Corporations And Commerce, Are Again The Undisputed Overlords Of Politics And Government. The White House, The Congress And, Increasingly, The Judiciary, Reflect Their Interests. We Appear To Have A Government Run By Remote Control From The U.s. Chamber Of Commerce, The National Association Of Manufacturers And The American Petroleum Institute. To Hell With Everyone Else.