Who’s In Charge Here?

“The media are far more powerful than the president in creating public awareness and shaping public opinion, for the simple reason that the media always have the last word.”

—Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37^th president, whose misdeeds helped Woodward & Bernstein invent modern journalism. Image: Nixon has had enough of UPI’s Helen Thomas, Salzburg, Austria, 1972/Stars and Stripes.

• Editorial Comment: That was then. . . . But some things never change:

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