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Protectionism, by contrast, tends to impose widely spread costs but to confer benefits on concentrated interest groups, who therefore have a strong incentive to lobby for it--and to provide financial support for those who help make it seem intellectually respectable.
"We're both irreverent, hip and fun, but also trusted and respectable brands."
Not too long ago, "respectable" outlets like the NYT steadfastly ignored cyber writers, even as they were openly referring to tabloids as sources for front-page stories.
As a writer in the Sydney Truth observed in 1912, “I think respectable people may go surf-bathing and still remain respectable, but people who aren't moral and respectable do not become so by shooting the breakers and airing their figures on the beach.”
(I can't see Cook's putting "freedom" in quotes as anything but a perfectly respectable rhetorical device, though.