Reply #9: I guess I have more faith in the people ultimately wanting to know the truth [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

and the concept of individual freedom in having the opportunity to find it, rather than having it force fed to them.

I believe with the advent of radio and television, the American People to a large extent out sourced their critical thinking to the all powerful images flickering from afar. I also believe reading the same information with the ability to converse with someone on the other side of the nation or planet regarding that knowledge, is priceless to a greater perspective, even if by accident.

Your second paragraph is an argument against your first, while I'm sure many writers and editors profess a faith in greater information, how many owners and CEOs of these one way corporate mega phones feel the same way? The last time I checked six corporations owned approximately 90% of everything the American People hear on the radio, see on the television and read in newspapers or magazines and today they want to conglomerate even more. All of those writers and editors you mention work for the same handful of bosses. It was Jack Welch who felt the need to interfere with his own news division in calling the state of Florida for Bush while it was still in dispute.

Regarding Al Gore, those memes attacking Al Gore's integrity such as the ludicrous one of "Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet", screamed for verification! That was just one sample of many lies against him by our so called "fourth estate", the integrity deficit was with them, not Al Gore and to this day I haven't seen any of them come out with an apology for the relentless slander and libel they waged against him while giving Bush a free pass to the White House. In effect, I believe they transferred the sins of the President regarding integrity on to the Vice-President because they knew after eight years of witch hunting Clinton, that was the only way Bush could come close enough to steal the selection of 2000.

I believe information in the Information Age is the equivalent of fire during the Stone Age and as the Internet grew in power and influence thereby threatening the monopoly on information held by a few owners and CEOs in the corporate media, they came to resent the most visible political champion of opening up the Internet for the people. Information = power, money and influence, one example being the exploding cost of campaign advertising in running for public office. I call the "War Against Gore" the Prometheus Treatment with the owners and CEOs playing the part of Zeus and their "lazy" journalists as you put it or pundits, the vulture only instead of taking bites from an ever healing liver, they were biting at truth and integrity with slander and libel. The nation has been paying a heavy price ever since.