These days, what’s broadcast is carefully controlled. The news is tempered, shorn of opinion; dramas are kept calm and easygoing, the stakes have been lowered, and whatever they do show is calibrated to be much less intense. It’s not censorship, we’re assured, it’s simply a form of moderation, for our own good. Nothing divisive, nothing to make people angry, nothing to make people scared. At Ironside, we get even less. A shadow of a shadow of the media we once knew. We get fashion tips and decorating tutorials; we get kids’ TV shows; we get the shopping channel with its endless Tupperware and
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