From the comments section, a few posters are arguing about the uninformed public making poor choices because…they’re uninformed. SiouxRose makes the point that a single mother with 2 kids doesn’t have the time to do what we do–looking for the news on the internet…because she sure the hell isn’t getting the information she needs to make an informed decision on the network news.
Then another poster comments that people need to take responsibility.
The problem with that is with media consolidation into the rightwing mania, the information access is extremely limited. It’s difficult to get accurate, mostly unbiased (there’s no such thing as un-biased) news reported by intelligent individuals with a grasp of the subject at hand. Like I reported earlier, the only station that reports news like it used to be reported, prior to Reagan’s assault on the Press and Marketplace of Ideas, is a rightwing station. They report every half hour. The other stations? You’re lucky if you get the news in the morning, and then you’re SOL for the rest of the day. Nothing. Nada. And when the storm hit my area, there was nothing the next day–Saturday–to tell folks what was happening and where they could go for a cooling center. But you can be sure that there will be half-hour segments when/if a ter__ist event is happening.
So…to blame the public for not getting access to information is blaming the wrong folks–they already have very little power. And if you’re like me, you only get access to news through the internet. As has been said before–you control information, you control people.
I just wish there were as much outrage over the consolidation of media and the end of the Fairness Doctrine as there is against war.
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