Truthtelling
Tom Shales of The Washington Post has written the kind of piece you almost never see anymore in a mainstream news publication, even from a columnist: a 190-proof rant so biting and yet so right that I'm certain the editor who approved running it fears for his job even today. The subject/target: FCC chairman Michael Powell, a martinet whose arrogance and pusillanimity stand out even in a profession, government, whose hallmarks they are. Take it from this ex-broadcaster: Shales couldn't have gotten this any more right with a radio-controlled thermonuclear device, although I'd have paid good money to watch him try.
I can only add that if this were a just nation, bureaucrats like Michael Powell would be beaten and driven across the landscape like extras in "Conan the Barbarian."
