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
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
>
> 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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