Truth to Power

The role of the press

A Time for Disobedience

Sydney H. Schanberg

April 19th, 2005 10:24 AM

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. –Henry David Thoreau, 1848

The press is now looking squarely at a perversion of government. The administration of George W. Bush has raised secrecy and information control to a level never before seen in Washington. </i>

Excellent look at the role of the press standing up to Bush. Or rather, how they should…


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