What has happened since the old muckraking days of the 1920s is that espionage, whether political or commercial, has become the largest business in the world, and we take it for granted that the modern newspaper depends on "bugging" the whole community. In fact, we expect the press to “bug” the world and to challenge and penetrate all privacy and identity, whether private or corporate.
“At the Moment of Sputnik—” (1974), typescript, p 6
Year: 1974
Compiled by William Kuhns
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