logic in my recent diaries urging DEMS/media to focus on specific questions about Romney's Mormon church views/practices, which are guaranteed to shave off some points, regardless of how he answers, and w/o DEMS/media risking criticism as bigoted or unfair. I got hell for raising this "taboo topic," but noticed countless stories/diaries/blogs on the theme in the subsequent days. As to the media, they're doing exactly what the 1st Amendment is designed for them to do: promoting their own agenda without interference from government. They're corporations, they're sponsored by corporations, why should we expect them to promote other interests over their own? If there's a problem with corporations promoting their agenda without restraint, the responsibility lies with those who gave corporations that freedom. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King "Beyond Vietnam" two of my profs heavily stressed that the concept of truth and accuracy, and social activism as well, in the press is a relatively new concept and that previously the concept was that "the marketplace of ideas" would determine what was true and right. Sounds like we are returning to our roots. The primary interest of the press should be informing the public. That is what the press' freedom is based on - as is yours and mine, in these pages. Of course, the corporate interest trumps the public interest whenever they diverge. The attention of the public is supposed to keep