I think this is the most stunningly inappropriate article for a news organ in a (supposedly) democratic society to print that I have ever seen.

Just taking the standard theory of the nature of the US, now, and removing the almost diametrically opposite reality, our society is claimed to be in some sense a democracy. If the people who have attained power in same can sit around and cook up our future for us every year, and our news media doesn't even MENTION each year that they're doing it, then that suggests rather strongly what we actually live in -- an oligarchy. Apparently editors know this, and humbly refrain from bothering their betters.

Just a yearly MENTION of the fact of this meeting, together with a list of the attendees, would remind us that something's going on in those rarified realms that we the people perhaps should know about. Just such a mention, alone, might also give us the ability to infer other interesting information, like who the masters have lined up to rule us next. The fact of reporters' being hustled away by security would also have enlightening implications.

And finally, don't you suppose that our once-marvelously inquisitive reporters could ocasionaly go further and even find out what was actually discussed there? Wouldn't you like to know? Don't most of us know enough history to be aware that when the rulers have total secrecy in which to confer they are more likely to make decisions that the plebs wouldn't like? My goodness! Forewarned we might even be able to organize politically and defeat some of those dispositions.

But, apparently appropriately in this writer's view, editors are happy not to run the risk of fomenting any such dangerous knowledge or disruptions. I expect nothing less. Ever since we started to see special boxes being constructed in our stadia for the nobles, I've known that the old nonsense about democracy has been dying, and the new reality has been a secret open to the people if they want to see it, and they don't. Best to just trust the masters.

Apparently our editors and this commenter agree.