Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Required Reading

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/plus-a-change-twitter-town-hall-dept/241542/

My dear mother was appalled at President Obama taking questions via Twitter.

But as Fallows points out above, average people tend to ask better questions than our professional journalist caste.

Shocker.

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