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Message trumps medium for dissidents

By Free Media Online · April 30, 2010 · Comments Off
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Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Why aren’t today’s democratic dissidents as well-known as the Soviet dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s? The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby suggests that the superficial character of new media has something to do with it. Samizdat literature was difficult to create and dangerous to distribute; precisely for that reason, it was inestimably precious, far more likely

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Message trumps medium for dissidents

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