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Jan 18, 2011 05:17

Our political conversation is a shared resource, which none of us owns and all of us benefit from. It's how we decide where to bestow our votes, our source of information about the world and how we as a nation fit into it, our debating-ground for how our lives are led ( Read more... )

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gwendally January 18 2011, 13:49:20 UTC
Yes. Exactly this.

Which is exactly why I'm interjecting myself in conversations with my friend the Admiral saying, "hey, wait, the political discourse you're hearing is the exploitation version, not the real version."

I grew up in a multi-party household and we get news magazines which pay actual journalists. That has become my main metric for whether to pay any attention to a news source:

"Did it cost them money to get this information." If no actual journalists were paid for time in developing the information, then it's gossip.

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