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The Washington Post once got widely mocked for an editorial justifying the publication of a damaging rumor about a public official with the argument that while the rumor may not be true, it is true there is a rumor.
But the daily Sevodnya also mocked President Boris Yeltsin for devoting more time to it than to Russia's economic crisis.
Stylish New Yorkers have for years mocked D.C. for its indifference to fashion.
But isn't this ubiquitous propagandizing what we mocked and derided when the Soviets did it?
Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."