Nearly 45% believe zero, zip, zilch, nada...

(from the nyt)

A recent report from the Pew Research Center, "Trends 2005," is painful to read. The report says that 45 percent of Americans believe little or nothing in their daily newspapers, up from 16 percent two decades ago.

and why are blogs and alternative news sources takin' off like a rocket...? huh, huh...? and what does this horrible statistic say about how mega-news corporations affect citizens' ability to obtain accurate, objective news...? huh, huh...? (ironically, the name of rupert murdoch's global empire IS "News Corporation" and if you wanna see everything under his umbrella that's driving a lot of world opinion these days, visit here...)

the shame about blogs is the amount of time they require to keep abreast... and that's sayin' nothing about the time required to digest everything so that you can form a coherent picture of what's goin' on... workin' folks don't have the luxury of that kind of time... then there's the internet accessibility problem... even if you do have it, if it isn't high-speed, navigating from site to site is enough to drive a saint to drink...

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