Relying on the beneficence of the experts is a dangerous proposition. They don't have that good track record. The problem is that organizing an intelligent mass movement is difficult when you're swimming against the tide of crap put out by the corporate media. Here the Telecommunications Act represents one of the many abominations of the Clinton administration. Democracy Now is under attack. I knew of few alternative outlets, even of a far lesser quality.
Brad DeLong wrote:
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> I was on Michael Krasny's show on KQED last Wednesday--as the Gore
> economy guy. And I left thinking (a) that Michael is a genius for
> making his show as informative as it can be, (b) that radio is such
> an immensely low-bandwidth way of disseminating information, and (c)
> that even so we had managed to significantly inform the listeners.
>
> Since moving to California and living under the dead hand of Howard
> Jarvis as magnified by the voter initiative process, I have become a
> lot less enamored of all forms of direct democracy--and a lot more
> enamored of elections as
> picking-smart-hard-working-people-who-approximately-share-your=-priorities...
>
> Brad DeLong
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