“Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused. A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with power which knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
James Madison
[1751-1836]
(From this page that a google found … http://www.naafoundation.org/pdf/Speaking_of_a_Free_Press.pdf )
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I wonder what Mr. Madison would have thought of today's corporate controlled press? About a press that is at best more concerned with profit than in providing citizens a means of acquiring popular information? Or that at worst is promoting the agenda of its corporate owners to the deliberate destruction of our democracy?
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