I am still green enough to get hopeful about things like this every now and then.
Let’s ramp up the intelligence of politics
An open letter to the political blogosphereJimmy (Jimbo) Wales, July 4, 2006
For more than 50 years now, we have been living in the era of television politics. In the 1950s television first began to have a major impact on politics, and the results were overwhelming.
Broadcast media brought us broadcast politics. And let’s be simple and bluntly honest about it, left or right, conservative or liberal, broadcast politics are dumb, dumb, dumb.
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