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‘Don’t hate the media—become the media!’ ”21 For Americans, the most familiar counter-democratic institution is the press,

“I think, therefore I doubt I am,” Ha said.

The hijackers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have acted as if the idea that self-government depends on people being able to count on independent providers of information is a quaint relic and that the new media channels present new opportunities that creative political operatives must seize.

We’re a country governed by public opinion, and public opinion is largely governed by the press, so isn’t it critical to understand what governs the press?

Loyal to the military regime’s nationalist economic policy, Bolsonaro had opposed the privatisations of state companies piloted through in the late 1990s by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and had even suggested that Cardoso should be shot for having sold off the publicly owned telecoms company, as well as stakes in the state-owned mining and

These incidents of “political correctness,” amplified by right-wing media, whipped up hatred of elites out in Real America. The culture wars raged on, as bloody-minded and durable as the Thirty Years’ War, a full-employment program for pundits of every type. Some worried about a generation of ultra-sensitive children coddled by ultra-indulgent adul