Being Amber Rhea

links for 2008-09-29

• Cult Of Gracie: I Don't Care What You Say About Last Friday's Presidential Debates
  "You keep talking about the 'undecideds' as if they exist; they don't. There are people who don't care, but anyone with any political consciousness or belief in a failing system has already made up their mind."
  (tags: politics election election2008)
• The Shrinking Public Square | Sex In The Public Square
  "In 1960, press critic and journalist A.J. Liebling made the famous observation that 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.' That's even more true than it was 48 years ago; although it's theoretically easier to build and operate your own 'press' — whether it's blog software, a video camera, a copy of Photoshop, or podcasting — whatever you produce will go nowhere if the channels of distribution are blocked off, and many of those channels are privately owned."
  (tags: media press freedom discourse sexuality publicsquare society freespeech important)

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