“I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.”
About This Quote
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, speaking to the Midwest Republican Conference on November 13, 1969.
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