…was not quite the one being publicized upon the launch of the new, “subversive” service ostensibly “striking a blow” against the “established media”.
From where I stood, it looked more like another set of elites setting up their own playground.
C’est la vie; plus la change, plus la meme chose.
Such is life; the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.