During last week’s chat, someone asked if I thought the public was, at least in part, to blame for the current state of our politics. My response was essentially “sure.” A couple days later, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg harangued the America public. And now here is Glen Pearson, quoting Aristotle and referencing Avatar.
Jacob Weisberg on why Barack Obama should put Smart People in his cabinet:
As a general rule, media ethics debates work best in journalism schools (where they can safely and entirely be discussed in theory). But here we go.