"Roger Long" wrote:
A democracy and its future depends more on the responsibility
of the press than on the integrity of its leaders. Leaders come
and go and can be changed if the public is properly informed.

We're in trouble.

Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not defending the behavior of today's
American news media when they behave in the cynical, careless fashion of
CBS's recent story. But when in our history has it ever been any
different? Take a look at some archives of newspapers from the late
nineteenth century, for example - awful, but we're still here.

We have a free press, which means that it will have warts on it (or, as
Donald Rumsfeld candidly remarked about freedom in general, it will be
"untidy"). It is our responsibility as free citizens to point out those
warts when we see them.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, a free press is a terrible kind of
press, but all other kinds are worse.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM
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