It's Not Your Father's America Any More

Published on Friday, March 25, 2005 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It's Not Your Father's America Any More

by Hubert G. Locke

This country is becoming more unrecognizable with each passing day. The government, we've learned recently, now packages the news. It provides television stations with hundreds of video news releases made up to resemble actual news reports that give us predigested, Orwellian information designed to convince the public that everything in the nation is being well-managed.