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To: FaultLine who wrote (8692)	11/2/2001 6:53:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

This comes awfully close to saying we can't trust the unwashed masses to govern themselves... I think it comes closer to saying that the media have a responsibility to educate and inform. Most people get their news from the TV. It would be a nice feature if most of the news they heard was true. Conspiracy theories are dangerously seductive; once you buy in, they explain EVERYTHING. I don't feel any assurance that if we gave equal time to Lyndon Larouche and Middle East conspiracy theories, the majority of the public would just naturally be able to discern reasonable men from lunatics. You have the necessary education. Does the public? If not, it's all the more important that TV inform, not misinform. "A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson

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