Shutdown coverage fails Americans

[Spencer Graves]

Dan Froomkin of Al Jazeera: "We need journalists to hold
politicians accountable for extremist actions, not to enable them."
(http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/1/reporting-governmentshutdowndemocracy.html)


sg: The current business model of the media will not permit
honest reporting in areas like this: The media would lose advertising
without a compensating increase in audience. We need a public that will
search for the information they need to know what to demand of their
elected officials and how to vote. That's the only way I see out of
Lesterland
(http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html).



See you tomorrow evening.


sg


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Spencer Graves, PhD
Executive Director
Effective Defense
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