>>Sorry to bring up yet another parallel, but Miloshevich used the same trick. He and his gov't were the main source of the news. If you don't publish what he likes, you don't get invited to the press conferences, and you are cut off the main supply of the wares you sell: the news. Of course, it was a sad state of affairs, when the government is the news - specially the bad ones.
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>You remember famous interview done by (his) high party official Vucelic when they were about to oust Cosic/Panic duo ? I does not get uglier/lower then that I think ...

I don't. By that time I stopped watching and reading altogether :). Four years later, we got the web - and the TV Bastille is now covering 50 states plus some.

>It might be far fetched to say that current US politics are turning this way, but they have sure picked up couple of tricks from our 'Great Illusionist' <vbg>

Sometimes I think they left him in power a few years longer as a sort of sandbox, to try out the tricks, see what works. Then he ran out of tricks and specially ran out of wars, so he was good to go down.