In a bold move sure to convince the remaining skeptics that an Obama presidency might include punishment for any who criticize him, the Obama campaign has told three major US newspapers to pack up and leave his press plane by Sunday. Which three? The NY Post, The Dallas Morning News and The Washington Times, all three having endorsed Senator McCain.
This from Drudge:
Despite pleas from top editors of the three newspapers that have covered the campaign for months at extraordinary cost, the Obama campaign says their reporters -- and possibly others -- will have to vacate their coveted seats so more power players can document the final days of Sen. Barack Obama's historic campaign to become the first black American president.
And this from "The First Congress Of The Communists International" meeting March 1919:
“Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and Socialists everywhere have explained millions of times —that this freedom is a deception because the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists, and while capitalist rule over the press remains—a rule that is manifested throughout the whole world all the more strikingly, sharply and cynically—the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example. The first thing to do to win really equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying publishing houses and bribing newspapers.
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