NP Ivins re "a class difference in information"

[Doug Millison]

http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/columnist/1956532671.htm?template
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"[...] There are some signs of what could become a dangerous division in
what has been an unusually unified America since this crisis began, and
they have to do with a class difference in information.

To oversimplify, those who are getting their information from the Internet
and/or a broad range of publications are having conversations with one
another that are radically different from those heard on many radio talk
shows. This is more than the simplistic jingoism that is a constant in
American life; this is simplistic jingoism with a dangerously short
attention span.

The "let's nuke 'em" crowd is still looking for a short, simple solution,
and there just isn't one. [...]
While some of us search for the answer to the question, "Why do they hate
us?," the voices on radio talk shows are answering: "Who cares? Nuke 'em."
Those inclined to think that's not a bad plan might keep in mind the
already-classic lead by Barry Bearak of `The New York Times': "If there are
Americans clamoring to bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age, they ought
to know that this nation does not have far to go. This is a
post-apocalyptic place of felled cities, parched land and downtrodden
people." [...]



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