Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Quote of the day: Democratizing media

Here's Bob Somerby explaining why, although the guardians of (elite) public discourse 50 years ago would never have told their audiences that we can miraculously raise revenue by cutting taxes, this silly trope is repeated tirelessly today:

At some point in the past several decades, we began to "democratize" media. Idiots got to join the club.

And there you have it.

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