To be engraved on a tombstone?

This should be considered a leading candidate among slogans that may someday be put on the tombstone of American democracy:

The so-called "rules of objective journalism" dovetail with the disciplined functioning of a one-party government to keep the political debate willfully opaque and stupid.

- Mark Danner, referring to the American media's treatment of the Downing Street Memo, TomDispatch.com 06/19/05