In a 1789 letter to the British philosopher Richard Price, Thomas Jefferson observed that "wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government." By that standard, it’s no longer clear that the American electorate is equipped for the task.
The dereliction of duty by these networks deprives millions of voters of information they need in order to assess the character of the man who lives in the White House and the powerful security state over which he presides
- The broadcast networks are hardly unique in their failure to keep the public informed. Their print counterparts have been equally negligent.
- Elon Musk called out the Times for ignoring the story, referring to the Gray Lady as an "unregistered lobbying firm for far-left politicians."
- In a 1785 letter to Dutch statesman G. K. van Hogendorp, Jefferson wrote, "You know well that [the British] government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who without any regard to truth, or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the minister."
Self-government is not a passive undertaking
- It's our duty as citizens to keep ourselves informed enough to know the difference between propaganda and news. That can't be done by sitting on our couches and kvetching at the television screen.
- Demand is growing for alternatives like Real America’s Voice
https://spectator.org/are-americans-still-capable-of-self-government/
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