Eftirfarandi tilvitnun rifjaðist upp fyrir mér þegar ég las það sem Egill Helgason skrifaði um í gær (sjá: eyjan.pressan.is/silfuregils/2014/12/19/umraeda-um-tittlingaskit/) A contemporary dictator would not need to do anything so obviously sinister as banning the news: He or she would only have to see to it that news organizations broadcast a flow of random-sounding bulletins, in great numbers but with little explanation of context, within an agenda that kept changing, without giving any sense of the ongoing relevance of an issue that had seemed pressing only a short while before, the whole interspersed with constant updates about the colorful antics of murderers and film stars. This would be quite enough to undermine most peoples capacity to grasp political reality — as well as any resolve they might otherwise have summoned to alter it. The status quo could confidently remain forever undisturbed by a flood of, rather than a ban on, news.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:09:19 +0000
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