TIME GOES BY | Deja Vu: Past Political Debate

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by Ronni Bennett, The TGB Proprietor

On radio, television, in books, film documentaries and the internet, Danny Schechter has been fighting the good, progressive fight since his college days. We first met in 1969 or 1970, when he hosted a radio show in Boston and I produced my then-husband's radio show in New York. Later, we both worked as producers at 20/20 on ABC-TV. (Danny's Wikipedia entry is here)

For several years, in connection with Globalvision, of which is he is co-founder, Danny has been writing the News Dissector blog – a never-miss stop on my morning news rounds. Yesterday, he published a remarkable story about the opposition surrounding the debate about the creation of the income tax, Social Security, the TVA and Medicare. The arguments being made against today's health care reform are astonishingly similar.
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