We have been slightly bemused that people suddenly care about “60 Minutes.” We were sure its audience wasn’t alive enough anymore to muster so much lucid enthusiasm. Its creator, Don Hewitt, died as quantitative easing was giving corporate socialism new life.

The Trump-attacks-media narrative has become one of tiresome navel-gazing. The problem doesn’t seem to be the repression itself, which has always been power’s prerogative, but that the repression has metastasized from polite to vulgar.

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