I’m not asking for Government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a form of censorship already exists when the news that 40 million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and is filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.
--Vice President Spiro Agnew
November 13, 1969
You can read the whole speech here
Also uttered by Spiro Agnew:
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
--September 11, 1970, San Diego, CA
Man! How little things change!
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"The more things change, the more they remain the same."
I knew I wasnt that clever. But I really don't remember where I heard it first.