1.0 link 218921 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-c-moynihan/daily-show-pundits-should_b_218921.html In a 1979 column on the abdication of the Shah, William F. Buckley noted with wonderment that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's agitprop communiques, divined from his Parisian exile and recorded onto audio cassettes for distribution in Tehran, had roused a restive Iranian population into rebellion. "Electronic communications," Buckley wrote, "which are the century's gift to totalitarian states, played paradoxically into the hands of the insurgents."

A reasonable enough assessment at the time, but one that strikes the modern reader as...

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