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It's The Oxygen, Stupid

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

If you ask me, that's more true today than when Thomas Jefferson first said it, but the biggest difference between now and then is how reliant the electorate is on new media to keep them informed, and how bad a job …

3 comments about "It's The Oxygen, Stupid".
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  1. Kevin Killion from Stone House Systems, Inc., August 19, 2022 at 10:23 a.m.

    "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
    -- Thomas Jefferson

    "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
    -- Mark Twain

  2. Douglas Ferguson from College of Charleston, August 19, 2022 at 11:17 a.m.

    Even Bernie Sanders admits that the Act won't reduce inflation. That bit of news, his comments, also only appeared once. The real fakery is the deception in naming major legislation. Buried in the Act is a compromise erasing Biden’s ending of oil leases, so even the environment is not assisted very much. Nobody reads the details so journalists get to speak in generalities.  

  3. Kevin Horne from Verizon replied, August 20, 2022 at 3:35 a.m.

    (In reply to K Killion)
    Two statements made 2-3 hundreds of years ago.

    Meaningless to today's media landscape ("newspaper" Lol).

    In any case, Jefferson was frustrated; Twain was covering his usual bases.

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