Gore Vidal probably would have laughed at the fact that his death Tuesday at age 86 was the second biggest story yesterday morning on NPR, right behind the earth-shattering news of a badminton scandal at the Olympics.
From The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, a slim volume of essays by Vidal published in 1992:
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent.
