[Romulus]

The sensationalist Press, the hysterical State, and the paranoid Public all get skewered.

I'm all for a richly-deserved skewering, but IMO the press is not only sensationalist but complicit -- and the State is not hysterical but terrorist. The State incites and encourages fear, and then holds itself out to the terrorised public as their only hope. It's all about power. It's not that complicated.

[Wormwood]

I'm all for a richly-deserved skewering, but IMO the press is not only sensationalist but complicit -- and the State is not hysterical but terrorist. The State incites and encourages fear, and then holds itself out to the terrorised public as their only hope. It's all about power. It's not that complicated.

Best post of this thread. It deserved to be repeated in BOLD.