1. That herd behavior is disappointing but customary cowardice.
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3. Worse happened after 9/11. Many once valiant FOI fighters cleansed
4. their websites and heralded the need to obey the war-mongerers, and
5. urgently cautioned others as if the propaganda was believable.
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7. No doubt, this self-censorship is market-driven to please
8. funders, advertizers and publishers who dare not displease their
9. dinner companions at Aspen, Davos, Bohemian Grove, and for
10. sure the DC centroid of privileged access to valuable information,
11. much of it spy boosting leakage of the Snowden type.
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13. The heavy censorship of the Snowden documents by the hoarders
14. and their extremely slow pace of release while rhetorizing and
15. hyping the minimalist product fits this spy-favorite marketing
16. schemata.
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18. NPR is not what it used to appear to be. It has booted and censored
19. a slew of its reporters, editors and contributors. Not alone, the
20. journalism industry is panicked at loss of customers and is rushing
21. to cleanse its harem. Poor discards are deperately seeking Omidyar
22. and Soros invitation to their opium dens as if from frying pan into
23. the fire.