{"id":664,"date":"2018-12-31T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=664"},"modified":"2018-12-31T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:22:48","slug":"pr-pr-october-1-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/pr-pr-october-1-good-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"PR PR October 1: Good Luck!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Well, a bit of quote-bowdlerization by Jan Petter Myklebust here<\/a> [quote omitted the part in green<\/b>, missing the point<\/font>], but JPM’s article’s basically OK. <\/p>\n

Happy PR Day, October 1…<\/p>\n

I like neither the name “Pussy Riot,” nor, I’m sure, their music. I\u00a0 don’t like the style of their criticism of dictatorship. But<\/font> I support with all my soul their right to name themselves “Pussy Riot,” play their music, style their style, and criticize dictators. A prison sentence for this is an appalling assault on freedom and the surest vindication of their indictment of Putin’s dictatorial propensities. It makes even the likewise autocratically inclined prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, with his FUD campaign against critical philosophers<\/a>, look like Thomas Jefferson.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, a bit of quote-bowdlerization by Jan Petter Myklebust here [quote omitted the part in green, missing the point], but JPM’s article’s basically OK. Happy PR Day, October 1… “I like neither the name “Pussy Riot,” nor, I’m sure, their music. I\u00a0 don’t like the style of their criticism of dictatorship. But I support with … <\/p>\n