I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far gre… - Václav Havel

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I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far greater consequence than the remark itself. Democratic choice in such cases ceases to be a choice between alternatives people are familiar with, and have personally tried, and becomes a choice between alternatives offered by those who run the media.