TDS is good for politics and citizen participation

marty kaplan nails it in the huffpo...

Young Daily Show viewers blame the elites who run the political-media system for the mess we're in, not themselves. They think they really get what politics is actually all about. And, says the study, here's an idea worth entertaining: "citizens who understand politics are more likely to participate than those who do not."

marty sees through the slanted view taken by the wapo and pegs it to the same bullshit being peddled by lee siegel in tnr (see earlier post)...

Is there a reason that the Washington Post piece dwelt exclusively on the half-empty side of the argument? I suppose that reflecting what the study actually says -- on the one hand, on the other hand -- just wouldn't have cut it for a column. And making the half-full case exclusively instead -- Jon Stewart, Fighter for Democracy -- might not have gone over well in a town whose media and political elites don't much like being nailed on television as the dickwads and asshats that they are.

the number of people with any reach at all who are courageous enough to speak truth to power in this country is distressingly few... thank god for jon stewart... it's just a shame that we have to get that level of reality in a comedy show...

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