The whole machinery of news-making is directed to the confirmation of that impression; and the chance that the miners’ claim will be considered equally is destroyed by the weight which unequal economic power attaches to the case against that claim.
Laski discusses how media bias can undermine the legitimacy of claims made by less powerful groups.
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If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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