Another lists the challenges of controlling information amid "mass incidents", a term officials often use to describe social unrest.
The admiral was Isoroku Yamamoto of Japan, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and knew a thing or two about controlling information.
"What matters to them is social privacy: it's about how to control a social situation, which is something very different from controlling information".
But the exercise has gone beyond Dr. Kelly and turned into an examination of the government's dependence on manipulating and controlling information.
Yet South Korea's mild paranoia about controlling information harms its reputation as a liberal democracy and undermines its potential as a creative powerhouse.
It seems ill suited to an audience that multitasks, demands to react or contradict in real time, insists on controlling information rather than receiving it.
These officers sought advantage by controlling information and gleaning useful knowledge from the civilian population, functioning as a military combination of mayor, district attorney and police commissioner.
More significant than such changes has been the scope and depth of involvement by administration appointees in controlling information flowing through the farthest reaches of government on issues that could undermine policies.
Even as American reporters are expressing frustration at how fiercely the Pentagon is controlling information, the emphasis is not on getting better answers but on covering "the propaganda war" in the shallow, horse-race way elections usually are -- who's winning?
