I first came to think about ...

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
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Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
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