What ‘Enemies Of The People’ Truly Means — And Why The Media Are Not
Journalists expose systems that don’t work, and officials often agree.
As a correspondent in Moscow in the twilight years of Soviet power, I well remember the term “.” It had fallen out of favor by then but still evoked lingering threats to any free-thinking Soviet citizen. Many had been exiled or killed after being publicly labeled a “” in an earlier, more militant era. This ugly label, as much as any, signified the many ways Americans felt their democracy was superior to Russian
