Ruth Rosen has a medium length piece up on TPMCafe that's well worth a read. It concerns constraints on publishing during the early years of the Bush Administration, even for those writing for the opinion pages of a liberal newspaper.
Rosen's bio, TPM version, may be of some use for understanding where she's coming from.
It may sound like a cliché to say that censorship, whether from without or from within, is the quickest way to kill a democracy, but that doesn't mean it isn't still true. Given that we're just now learning about the false intelligence and other lies that the Bush Administration used to get us into war more than five years ago, it seems like we should be saying this more often.
(A sightly modified version of this post appears on the BloggingHeads.tv forums.)
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