A few days ago I was attending a panel discussion with famous whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg. The discussion was great and filled with all sorts of anecdotes and analysis of the extent of freedom of the press.
There were probably about 20 people who had stuck around for the panel discussion and the Q and A session that followed it. The moderator was taking questions about the first amendment when someone all of a sudden shouted out "How long am I going to have to listen to Pat Buchanan?"
People looked confused, so the man began to explain himself. Ultimately his question, if I interpreted it correctly, was concerned with the ownership of the airways, and who decides what kind of content is broadcast around the nation.
You don't need to know the response to his question. All you need to know is that that man was none other than John Heard, who, among other things, played the father of Kevin in Home Alone.
That is all I have to say about that.
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