When all sources of information are accessible to all men alike, when the world’s thought and the world’s news are scattered broadcast where the poorest may find them, the non-democratic forms of government must find life a desperate venture.
Woodrow Wilson: “When all sources of information are accessible to all men alike, when the world’s thought and the world’s news are…”
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Wilson argues that universal access to information challenges non-democratic governments to adapt or fail.
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