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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] The politicians are [i]a[/i] problem, but they aren't [i]the[/i] problem. Not the first one that needs solving, anyway. [i]The[/i] problem is the media. How many people actually listen to politicians or political activists speak in person? We get all our information from what the televisions tell us. You say no-one talks about election reform, tax reform, etc., but that's untrue. Plenty of people talk about them. The media simply don't tell the rest of the public about it. They tell the public, not the things they need to know, but the things they want to hear. The things that will keep them watching. In addition to this plain old desire for sensationalism, there's the now-long-standing absence of the Fairness Doctrine. The media have no obligation to fairly report multiple sides of a story. This leaves them open to reporting only the things that make their advertisers happy. Couple that with the fact that half of what the "news" media do these days is punditry (pundits are not journalists, and are therefore allowed to lie with impunity), and one can hardly be surprised that the general public is almost completely uninformed about everything. You're right to say that both significant political parties are pretty much shite. I recommend reading the book [i]Crashing the Gate[/i] for an explanation of why the Democrats, at least, are incompetent. However, major political parties get that way by becoming entrenched. And they become entrenched by looking out primarily for their own self-interest. The way to fix them is to get rid of the people who are part of that look-out-for-number-one mentality. And the way to get rid of them is by voting other people in to replace them. And, as long as people are voting for whoever the media tells them to vote for, that's not going to happen. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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