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To: combjelly who wrote (339899)	6/9/2007 12:03:18 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573352

We don't have a free, open and critical media. That's a pretty ridiculous statement.

To: combjelly who wrote (339899)	6/9/2007 8:57:28 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573352

Excellent post. It's slip sliding away. May take a generation but it's happening. Usually in a society it's the students and the press that stand up to this sort of stuff and act as the conscious of the country. And really not a peep from them.

To: combjelly who wrote (339899)	6/10/2007 12:42:04 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573352

"Sometimes I wonder if the country even deserves a democracy." I think our days as a democracy are numbered. We don't have a free, open and critical media. And a democracy cannot survive without that. The media goes all giddy over a $400 haircut, but it cannot and will not point out bald-faced lies by politicians. I doesn't even pick up on when Monica testified about "caging" voters in the DOJ hearings. Or the hirings based on political affiliations. Or the filing of voter fraud lawsuits right before an election, despite DOJ guidelines forbidding it. Or any of the other mechanisms that the DOJ has put into place to manipulate the election process. In a world where life is complicated, the media are the ones who are capable of highlighting the major concerns of the day. The American media fails that responsibility. I wish the British papers could get a bigger toehold in this country. Now we have been lurching down this road for a long while. But we now have a group in power who has no qualms about doing away with "quaint" mechanisms and are dismantling the last few things standing in the way of a power grab. And the very thing that can stand in the way of it, the media, is busy chasing Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan. And we have no one to blame but ourselves. What's astounding to me is that some school districts are doing away with the teaching of social studies. Americans barely have an understanding of how their gov't works now.....imagine if there is no social studies.