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OpEdNews Op Eds 4/2/2008 at 3:42 PM EDT

THE DOWNSIDE OF THE 24/7 NEWS CYCLE

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This dumbing down of news presents us with, at best, incomplete information. And incomplete information leads us to bad decisions. Whatever else one may say about today’s MSM, especially the electronic media, it is responsive to the market. And we are the market. If we demand better, it will happen.

So at the end of the day, the light at the end of the tunnel is us.

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William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration and now (more...)

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