Intellectual Capital has a link to discussion board going after Alterman's article. The Journalist of Tomorrow by Doug Millison. In the People's Republic of China, there is no shortage of information to supplement the untrusted, official media outlets. Our democracy has been placed in the way of danger by news that under-informs, sold to a population that doesn't know enough about itself to exercise its choices . . . . In a free society, news is fuel.
News is blood.
We are citizens with a voting franchise. We need to know our world. Making Media Democratic by Robert McChesney. The train of media reform is leaving the station. If we value democracy we have no choice but to climb aboard.