IP: Fwd: Re: Jockeying Over Broadband Bill

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: "Gerry Faulhaber" <gerry-faulhaber@home.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Re: Jockeying Over Broadband Bill
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:35:31 -0400
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>
>George Orwell figured out what Josef Goebbels did in Nazi Germany and wrote
>about its logical extension in "1984".  The Ministry of Truth was
>responsible for propaganda, etc.  Now that we're living in the future, the
>practice is more mundane and we're all familiar with it: if you say a lie
>often enough and loudly enough, it becomes the truth.  And this is not just
>in DC; NY, Redmond, the Valley ("that's not a bug, it's a feature!"), Middle
>America, ...
>
>Gerald Faulhaber
>Business and Public Policy Department
>Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
>Philadephia, PA 19104
>215-898-7860



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