Best Informed, Worst Informed

Quote of the day:
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
--Steven Wright

Here are a couple of thought-provoking excerpts from a recent column by the Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland.

“Access to the internet gives the generations living today the choice to be the best informed, or the worst informed, human beings in the history of the world--but we will never be able to claim that we were the least informed. Celebrity, slime and crude polemics pour from the electronic faucets as easily as high-minded exegeses.”

Referring to HBO’s “The Wire”:

“This magnificent dramatization of life in Baltimore’s violent ghettoes has systematically shown the failure of the city’s police, schools, unions and politicians to deal with a modern urban crisis.

“This final season focuses on a newsroom in turmoil and the broad failure of the city’s media to reflect the corruption of the institutions they are supposed to cover. The grim results of that inattention show how power unused by the media is just as destructive as its misuse.”