NP- David Brooks, Joe Klein, and the Courtier Press

[David Morris]

Many more of us than you probably know can't read.  Many more don't ever
read much but what they have to, like a "Rent's Due" notice.  Maybe 30% of
us really don't want to be disturbed from our sleep. Probably more.  And a
LOT of folks (us) don't have Internet at home, nor even at a Library, if
one is near.  How many does that leave us that are willing to read beyond
NYT & AP & * ?

"Willing" is a loaded verb.  Single parents, two pet owners, farmers and
fishers...  Etc.

Affording the luxury of information is limited by many factors, like free
time, usually a function of money.  Because of this always true limitation
of most of us, the Press, or us pamphleteers, bear responsibility to a
standard of information to our audience, and the greater the audience, the
greater the responsibility.

That a standard of information can't be legislated w/o tyranny doesn't
relieve a society from speaking out against public disinformation.

David Morris

On Wednesday, July 18, 2012, rich wrote:
>
> i really disagree that being well-informed is a luxury many cant afford.
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