While watching Orwell Rolls in his Grave a few days ago, I was struck by a quote from the great investigative journalist George Seldes. An open critic of corporate-owned media, Seldes held that:
The main threat to democracy comes not from the extreme left, but from the extreme right, which is able to buy huge sections of the press and radio and wages a constant campaign to smear and discredit every progressive and humanitarian measure.A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
