Lis­ten: Deer­hunter — “White Ink”

Last night’s Front­line report on the cat and mouse between main­stream media and new media was pret­ty enlight­en­ing. It was also a telling illus­tra­tion of how Amer­i­ca’s pri­or­i­ties have changed under dereg­u­la­tion, begin­ning with the Rea­gan Admin­is­tra­tion. Most impor­tant­ly per­haps is that we’re now liv­ing under the crass tute­lage of the worst rob­ber barons in his­to­ry, cre­at­ing a new labor pact in which we’re all interns pro­duc­ing infor­ma­tion for a cor­po­rate mega­lith. [Hi Google!]

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