By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'


Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic (ed. Franklin Square Pr, 1992)


By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring...

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring...

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring...

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring...