Radio OpenSource, http://www.radioopensource.org/ .. is a good
collection of interviews. A recent one was:
http://www.radioopensource.org/campaign-08-how-was-it-for-you-jim-fishkin/
.. in which Jim Fishkin remarks that typical political discussions/
sound bites have the information content of a fortune cookie!
He also has an interesting approach that can cure some of the
problems: "deliberative democracy".
-- Owen
On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Parks, Raymond wrote:
Douglas Roberts wrote:
.... I suppose that when the RWRDDA movement (Right Wing Religious
Dumbing Down of America) movement becomes sufficiently intolerable to
more of our scientific community, additional folks will begin to
speak
out on the subject. Perhaps if we get a Creationist Vice President
the process will accelerate!
Might I suggest a viewing of the movie "Idiocracy"? I agree with
that movie that the dumbing down is not from a particular party but
from
corporate interests, primarily corporate media.
I listened briefly to a segment of Hannity's radio show devoted to
Democrat callers and his screeners had no problem finding people
equally
as dumb and inflammatory as al-Jazeera found at the Palin rally. Both
sides pander to the lowest common denominator.
--
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