his away around the First Amendment, thinks that "the press establishment's general lack of enthusiasm for free speech for others (as evidenced by its support for campaign finance 'reform') suggests that it'll be happy to see alternative media muzzled. " "You want to keep this media revolution going?" he asks. "Be ready to fight for it. "
from Frank Wilson: Books, Inq.: The Epilogue: Her wish . . .
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Consider just one aspect: the slave who stood behind the general in the triumphal chariot and held above the honorand's head a golden crown while whispering, "Look behind you. Remember you are a man." Beard, who holds a chair in classics at Cambridge University, points out that this "has become one of the emblematic trademarks of the triumph," even figuring, in slightly different wording, in the closing sequence of the film Patton.
from Frank Wilson: Philadelphia Inquirer: A tradition not so well understood after all
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