And start reading again -- and no, I don't mean Paula Deen's latest cookbook, or the latest Hollywood scandal rag.

The reason why we're in this pickle is because culture rewards ignorance. That's what we have... And we have it in spades!

demand ethics in journalism and truth in media.Waiting for a book to be written is too long to act responsibly in the current situationswe face . Book provide deep and strong bases for analysis and I encourage everyone to read but they are time consuming and primarily history. We must deal with what we are experiencing now, yes with a true understanding of how democracy and our institutions are supposed to work, knowledge best gained from books burt also with a free and princip;led press that presents honest and insightful analysis. We have to be selective in our choices to be good citizens.

... to get news of current events. They are talking about newspapers and current weekly magazines.

Print media has a little more time to get things right before they have to report. TV is just too real time and the urge to get the "scoop" and to have to fill airtime causes lots of errors.

Also, it is easier to hold print media accountable for errors and untruths. There is a written record.

Me, I get most of my "current events" news from the web and a little TV. I don't read a single local newspaper. (They aren't even good enough for fish wrap.) But I do subscribe to The Economist and read it each week to get a different perspective on the world economy from what is on TV.

Washington needs to stop listening to Washington!

There are plenty of elected congress critters who don't know what they're talking about. And I'm not talking about the ones who are intentionally lying, but the ones who really don't know enough to do their job well.

Some dont even know how congress works.

Level, some of the people that are being elected are pretty scary.

there they are.

Its a thankless job and the public is ruthless, so regular people do not want to run. And its not that regular people don't want them to run either. I have a friend who ran and he didn't campaign or anything, but he almost won but the nut job was out there 24/7. I think he lost by 7 votes.

If he would have campaigned he probably would have won.

-Laelth

You sure as hell aren't going to get there through the TV screen and the amount of disinformation, misinformation and outright lies on the internet surpasseth human understanding.

And what do you get for the effort?

"I told you so" rights when the ugly chickens come home to roost along with a strong sense of impending doom.

I won't call them journalists, journalists inform the public, that's their job.

...without surveys or 'conversations'. 'Do the right thing' works for the vast majority of us. Politicians need to stop 'talking' to us so much and get shit done.
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