Tuesday 9 April 2013

The media and the internet

After the phone hacking scandal and the Leveson enquiry, the mass media, like almost every other institution in Britain, are in deserved disgrace.

But after Mrs Thatcher's death, I feel a bit sorry for them: desperately building a dyke of Quotes From Important People to hold back a storm of decentralized, internet-enabled, direct democratic spite.

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