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January 01, 2006

QotD: Elections and the media

There is no greater threat to democracy, I am now convinced, than a free press. Far from clarifying or illuminating the choices before the voters, the media's job seems mostly to be to get in the way — interposing ourselves between the candidates and the voters in a manner that fundamentally distorts and trivializes the debate.

Andrew Coyne, National Post, 2000

Posted by Nicholas at January 1, 2006 01:44 AM
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