It shows too...!

and, let we forget, it started the minute the supreme court opened the door for this pathetic excuse for a world leader to take office...

Make no mistake: The Bush Administration and its ideological allies are employing every means available to undermine journalists' ability to exercise their First Amendment function to hold power accountable. In fact, the Administration recognizes no such constitutional role for the press. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card has insisted that the media "don't represent the public any more than other people do.... I don't believe you have a check-and-balance function."

and so the alternative means for obtaining information would be...???

when the administration continually cows the press into being meek and timid, it's easy to see why the role of the press becomes diminished... no surprise either that blogs and alternative news sources are becoming so popular...

the irony here is that, in a democracy, to be a good citizen is to be informed... it's not only a right, it's an obligation... how else can government by and for the people be accomplished...? the two-way street is that government must insure that appropriate means for staying informed are in place, maintained and used... the bush administration's insistence that the media doesn't "represent" the public is an outright abdication of the government's obligation to insure objective, comprehensive and accurate information is available to the electorate... so, andy, boiling it down to a one word rebuttal, "bullshit..."

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