Wordplay Scam: Democracy

(C) 2010 Stan Spire


Here we go again. Another article saying we need mainstream journalism to keep our democracy alive.

Posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab site on Jan. 6 with a pompous title -- "Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy" -- it goes on about how universities can help by teaching "news literacy." That provoked me to leave this comment:

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News literacy? How about citizenship literacy?

"Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy"

Our democracy? What country do you live in? Pay attention the next time you recite the Pledge of Allegiance. We live in a republic. If we really lived in a democracy, Al Gore would've been elected president back in 2000 (popular vote).

I find it amusing how mainstream journalists go on that we need newspapers to protect "democracy."

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There are many reasons why newspapers are dying out. The main one: They suck. They keep repeating lies about "our democracy," giving the average American roob the illusion he has some sort of real say in what his leaders do through voting or writing a letter to the editor.

The Founding Fathers were concerned about democracy because it could lead to "mob rule." Instead, we have this republic run in part by Mob rule -- organized crime.


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Here's the link to the Nieman J Lab, www.niemanlab.org, article I was yakking about. Copy and paste it; I don't have time to screw around with HTML link crap.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/eric-newton-shame-on-us-if-we-dont-take-the-steps-needed-to-feed-knowledge-to-our-democracy/#more-11795