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To: FaultLine who wrote (8692)	11/2/2001 6:50:46 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yeah, well, you can always listen to talk radio or wander over to the local W thread, then contemplate the unrealizable hypothetical of equal time for non-wackos.

To: FaultLine who wrote (8692)	11/2/2001 6:53:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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

To: FaultLine who wrote (8692)	11/3/2001 12:28:05 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>This comes awfully close to saying we can't trust the unwashed masses to govern themselves...<< Quit pickin' on the poor GOP. Just cuz conservatives don't tolerate change doesn't mean they never change their skivvies ... and doesn't licking one's self all over count as a washing? Kev@masterbait.ing