They will not help because TV is not suited for discussing detailed or sophisticated issues like constitutional law. It's great theater, bad discourse. There are opportunists such as the Christian Coalition as well as Cold, Flu and Drug Warriors who exploit the theater and provide characters and plot points to influence the show towards their goals of banning speech by gays and lesbians and keeping strong cryptographic tools away from individuals. When you try to show the flaws in their arguement, you'll be shouted down or labeled an anti-Christian . The implied threat of terrorists and child molesters lurking behind every computer needs a theater to work.
TV news provides the theater.
The civil libertarians of the net, good people such as John Barlow and Avedon Carol , have been eclipsed. We think we can influence public debate through reasoned argument. We are so quaintly Jeffersonian. Appeals to reason cannot withstand someone screaming about the army of thugs and pederasts who are coming for you and your child. It isn't even good Internet.