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And if these, this is a paraphrase now, but if these are not to be applied equally to Americans in
the future, this will have been a mockery. Well, that's what happened. They haven't been
applied, they're not being applied, and they should be.
Jimmy Dore
Let me take it back to Professor Chomsky and, you know, the international corporate state fears
investigative journalism. Does the fact that all major news outlets are controlled by billionaires
and corporations? Does that pose a threat to our democracy?
Noam Chomsky
Very seriously, if the United States notices one of the very few countries that does not have any
substantial, meaningful public broadcasting, it's only under private control that this was a battle,
what goes way back to the days of the framing of the Constitution. One of the parts of the
constitution is establishing the post office. This is very much under threat today. Why the post
office? The post office was instituted by the framers as a way to support the free and
independent press. Almost everything that the post office is doing in the early years of the
Republic was providing very inexpensive distribution of press journals, magazines to the
country, I think that was maybe 80% of what they were doing. This was intended as a way to
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