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  [M]id-eighteenth century America had a smaller proportion of church members than any other nation in Christendom... [I]n 1800 [only] one of every fifteen Americans was a church member.

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  —Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, p.89.

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Obama’s ongoing copyright industry promotion: FTC edition

Friday, February 27th, 2009 3:00 pm

aka, “the copyright industry suckup continues”, this time with the elevation of FTC commissioner Jon Leibowitz to Chair. Leibowitz is a former MPAA lobbyist (well, “vice president for congressional affairs”).

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One Response to “Obama’s ongoing copyright industry promotion: FTC edition”

  1. Enter, Julius Genachowski | BlogFox Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    [...] pragmatic opinion is just the reality that there are a number of interests that the Obama administration must court, and if your biggest complaint to date about Genachowski is that he’s someone who clearly [...]

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