Originally Posted by roachboy

o i addressed it, otto.
it's a stupid suggestion.
let's try for a minute to make sense of it, shall we?

you appear to have a kind of facile cynicism about information streams and make no particular connection between the quality of information that is available to the public, the public's capacity to make informed judgments--not to mention political judgments--and anything about a democratic political system, no matter how shallow that system might be.

instead, you seem to think of information as a kind of retail operation like shoes or vegetables and that you can go shopping for the kind of information that you prefer to consume and like shoes or vegetables. so you are not interested in critical thinking--you're interested in being able to find information that reinforces an image of the world that you want to see---and you assume that everyone works with as shallow a relation to information as you do. with that shallow a relationship, it is no wonder that you dont connect problematic information streams to problems of democratic process.

tv doesn't tell you there is such a connection so there must not be one.
if you think there is, then start your own network.

jesus....