Sorcha, I imagine you mean that no one was allowed to *publish* photographs of FDR in a wheelchair. Or where did all those photos come from?

I believe that the 'anything goes' approach began pretty much when LBJ showed the media his fresh gallbladder scar. And continued when Gary Hart taunted the press with 'Follow me' which they did; ever since, the press has been lurking behind every public figure.

Our government is changing this rapidly, only this time the silence and complicity are more damaging to us. What we're not supposed to watch - or hear about- these days is the flowing of the lifeblood of our nation and how it's being contaminated and diverted into something reprehensible. If this is not stopped, it will inevitably change our society and our government into an alien thing that our forebears warned against 200 plus years ago.