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This was brought to the attention of civil libertarians, they didn't see any problem with it, after all,
the conglomerate owns the publisher. They want to put them out of business and destroy every
one of their books, not just theirs, that's a liberty, which is I think, was one major exception. Ben
Bagdikian did not stand up and say this is wrong, virtually no one else.
Part of the genius of what we call neoliberalism, what we've been living under for 40 years was
encapsulated in Ronald Reagan's inaugural speech. Everyone knows the phrase, "government
is the problem, not the solution". Translate that into English, that means that these decisions are
going to be made somewhere, but they shouldn't be made in government because the
government is somewhat responsive to the public, and somewhat under the control of the
public. So take them out of public hands, put them in the hands of private tyrannies, which are
totally unaccountable to the public, in law and in practice. And then we will have what's called
liberty. You have liberty if you abandon everything to unaccountable private power. And that's
always been living with for 40 years. And this is very closely connected to the government itself,
if we lose even the capacity to influence the government to permit, not only to permit but to
support and advocate freedom of independent adversarial journalism, we've given up
everything. We've given up the freedoms that the founding fathers established in the
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