“This is not a liberal problem or a conservative problem. This is a threat to having an informed electorate. Public knowledge is the first barricade against tyranny. (Gun ownership is a necessary, and very close, second.) We all have seen the shocking bias of certain Reuters and AP reporters. As newsgathering further shrinks to such minimal levels, the light of knowledge will go out. Even now, it flickers from time to time. Basra was an early warning.”
I was just thinking about this last week. As we march, seemingly inexorably, towards a day when most of our “news” comes from individual sources on the web, how will we know who and what to trust? As news organizations cut back their staff or merge, we will even recognize how much we are missing? What would Thomas Jefferson do?
