Post by jbr on Mar 3, 2009 1:54:36 GMT -8
By JAY WINIK
As the economy reels and the Obama administration makes its first calls to action, not a day goes by that we don't hear urgent pleas for thoughtful bipartisan debate as a way of finding our way out of the morass we're in. In the same vein, we are told that the fulminations on 24-hour cable networks and talk radio -- or even on the editorial pages of newspapers -- stifle rather than enhance a proper consideration of "the issues." A subtext of these claims is that there once existed a golden age -- notably the Founding Era -- when Olympian political figures and impartial, public-spirited newspapers guided the nation in its times of crisis.
online.wsj.com/article/SB123604401795015329.html
As the economy reels and the Obama administration makes its first calls to action, not a day goes by that we don't hear urgent pleas for thoughtful bipartisan debate as a way of finding our way out of the morass we're in. In the same vein, we are told that the fulminations on 24-hour cable networks and talk radio -- or even on the editorial pages of newspapers -- stifle rather than enhance a proper consideration of "the issues." A subtext of these claims is that there once existed a golden age -- notably the Founding Era -- when Olympian political figures and impartial, public-spirited newspapers guided the nation in its times of crisis.
online.wsj.com/article/SB123604401795015329.html
