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?
