Didn’t say it was. But since I spent over a decade in the media I think I can speak with a little bit of knowledge about how our ‘free press’ is anything but free of government influence. In fact, it looks an awful lot like what Vlad just did. Just because it’s not him doing it here does not mean that there are not parallels to be drawn.
People are free to believe whatever they like.
Hey, I’m sorry. Did the government censors drop by much to tell you what to print or did they just tell you what not to print? It must have been very frightening to know that at anytime you could have been killed or shipped off to a prison, never to be seen again. Thank God that you were able to escape that type of job and become able to publish on Samizdats, like FReeRepublic. Please continue to share the similarities of your experience as a journalist living in the so-called free world and how it’s just like the Soviet/Putin world.