A bad idea whose time has come. Bill Clinton calling on you to volunteer is like the head of OPEC asking if he can siphon some gas out of your tank. Apparently, they confuse the apathetic with those few dead people who occasionally forget to vote in Illinois elections. Still, NBC leaped on-line, doing its customary brand of public service by providing yet another payday for Jane Pauley, which she needs like Marie Antoinette needs a rinse and a comb out. One way to improve America would be to legislate term limits for journalists.
Control of access is the methamphetamine of media.
Their interpretation of the First Amendment is not the public's right to know, but their right to tell them. You can't argue with the media because they get the last word, and they get it everyday. The last person to enjoy the privilege as totally was Hitler. Something regrettable happens to the truth when the media's mealybugs get at it. The communicators especially wimp out on the subject of race relations which they perceive largely as a question of whether the government should give black people a million billion trillion dollars or give them a million billion trillion skillion dollars.