Just removed a bunch of comment spam from here. Funny thing: the bulk of the spam comments where on this post about baby names. Laura suggested that people posting baby names didn’t know much about computers and couldn’t fend off the spam. That would be really sick if so.
I heard Mike Reagan reading this story about Gore on media and democracy and laughing because it was condescending (because it criticized TV?) and old news. But looking at it from the perspective that Gore “put on his professor’s hat for much of the lecture” I think Reagan was just being his normal partisan self.
I love this quote:
“Our democracy is suffering in an age when the dominant medium is not accessible to the average person and does not lend itself most readily to the conveyance of complex ideas about self-governance,” Gore said. “Instead it pushes toward a lowest common denominator.”
