howard Fineman has an interesting article on voters, Gore and the dumbing down of America. it's not that long. 3 pages on Newsweek but, it is short for 3 pages as newsweek's articles on the web are.
He talks about Gore's book and the steady diet of cotton candy news that belongs more on Entertainment tv rather than the real news. And that the media's focus on the silly and hollywood and it's pulling away from real information and hard news is contributing to the continuing Dumbing of America.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18959504/site/newsweek/The Founders worried about these questions, and so, of course, does Al Gore. I ran into him the other day in a place where I see lots of concerned citizens: outside the MSNBC television studios near Capitol Hill.
Gore was there to promote his new book, "The Assault on Reason," which is No. 1 on Amazon.
To answer an urgent question first, Gore didn’t look bad. He’s not the svelte Al Gore of old, and why should he be? He’s pushing 60, a grandfather three times over, a best-selling author, accidental movie star and media mini-mogul. He looked pale from the preapplied pancake makeup. Then again, so did I.
I told him that I had just predicted on TV that he would run for president. He accepted this extremely minor news with his patented, vaguely amused equanimity. You know how he expresses it: with that courtly, slyly smiling nod.
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