[RIMR]

Wow, when a foreign government tries to influence our elections, you handwave it away, but when American journalists weigh in on politics, suddenly they're being "adversarial".

Think long and hard about what you're saying here. You're dismissing foreign interference, but critisizing domestic political involvement.

The key difference here is that Russia isn't the United States and has no say in our policies, while American journalists are citizens and voters who have a societal duty to participate the democracy. When the former gets involved in an election, we call it "foreign interference", when the latter gets involved we call it "democracy".

So which do you prefer? Foreign manipulation of public will, or democracy?

[hanshan]

>So which do you prefer? Foreign manipulation of public will, or democracy?

That's a false dichotomy which implies you missed my point. There is no such thing as sovereign democracy in a globalized world with omnipresence and instantaneous communication.