] One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues ] and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of ] Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into ] democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives ] and allow journalists to pretend they have done their ] job if, instead of reporting the truth behind the news, ] they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the ] news. ... ] Hear me: an unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, ] a people fed only partisan information and opinion that ] confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in ] mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less ] inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. ] And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind ] of orthodoxy can kill us, too. This is quite a rant... |