On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:05 AM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you can figure out why money is going down this rat-hole:
>
> ...*Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry* can compel the proper
> meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with
> our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may
> prosper together."
>
> -DDE, 1/17/1961
>

Freedom of speech and the press is protected by the First Amendment.  So
speech subsequent to broadcast and prior to the Internet was dominated by a
government-granted monopoly on speech to the mass media.

So why is it that the mass media has, particularly in the last decade while
the Internet has just barely gotten to a level of significant influence on
public opinion, been so abjectly irresponsible?

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