Dr. Peter Duignan, an expert on Africa and Europe at the Hoover Institution argues that the world is just an unsafe for democracy as ever. Keep Germany down, the Russians out, and the U.S. in Europe. They are still true today. Former Reagan administration domestic policy advisor Martin Anderson complains that boredom and apathy is encouraged by news reports that read like State Department briefings. People want to know what it s like to live and do business in other parts of the world, he said.
Most coverage is a cure for insomnia.
The saga of the Clinton presidency is a dramatic masterpiece surely equal to the fervid imaginings of any novelist who has ever walked this planet. But in an age of the globalized economy and an expanding cyberspace frontier with no boundaries, the American press risks losing relevance. Its role is still to provide its readers a window on the whole world, and not only that sub-culture now occupying government housing on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in the nation s capital. Robert Morton is Managing Editor of the National Weekly Edition of The Washington Times and a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.